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Should I ship a Superhero Turn-Based Strategy?
Turn-Based Strategy + Superhero
Only 8 developers shipped a Superhero Turn-Based Strategy in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Nova Hearts, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 6 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $600 against a market of $1.5k. 6 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) |
| Top 5% | $50k (exactly $50,375) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 6 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue too few recent games to read momentum, supply 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Turn-Based Strategy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Superhero
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Turn-Based Strategy
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 18,453 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 6 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Turn-Based Strategy with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + IdlerFair
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerFair
- + TanksFair
- + SokobanFair
- + Top-Down ShooterFair
- + SpaceFair
Comparable games
Marvel's Midnight Suns 2022 · $31M 
Capes 2024 · $535k 
X-Angels 2024 · $202k 
Nova Hearts 2025 · $50k 
ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman 2022 · $33k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Marvel's Midnight Suns | older | $59.99 | 17,060 82% | 512k | $31M (exactly $30,702,882) | Firaxis Games |
| | Capes | older | $39.99 | 446 67% | 13k | $535k (exactly $535,066) | Spitfire Interactive |
| | X-Angels | older | $10.99 | 614 89% | 18k | $202k (exactly $202,436) | Barance Studio |
| | Nova Hearts | $19.99 | 84 67% | 2.5k | $50k (exactly $50,375) | Lightbulb Crew | |
| | ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman | older | $19.99 | 55 83% | 1.7k | $33k (exactly $32,984) | Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., Codeglue |
 | Sentinels of Earth-Prime | older | $17.99 | 45 86% | 1.4k | $24k (exactly $24,286) | Handelabra Games Inc. |
 | FAS: Fight Action Sandbox | older | $6.99 | 69 63% | 2.1k | $14k (exactly $14,469) | Vona Soft |
 | Giggle Night: Trixie's Trial | · EA | $19.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Anaximanes Entertainment |
 | CyberHoney | older | $4.99 | 28 46% | 840 | $4.2k (exactly $4,192) | aliothgame |
 | HyperLeague Heroes | older | $2.99 | 36 69% | 1.1k | $3.2k (exactly $3,229) | Siphon Shock |
 | FULL BET - FIGHTING CASINO - | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | FlatMountain | |
 | Tower Survivor | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | DIG Games | |
 | 武道传说 League of Fighters | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | LINWENJIAN | |
 | Specter: The Battle of the Mind | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | AlguemBonitinho | |
 | 破环者 LoopBreaker | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 白哥制作 | |
 | Archomni 2: Mondus Maxima | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DIONYSIOS DIAMANTOPOULOS |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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