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Should I ship a Supernatural Tactical game?
Tactical + Supernatural
Of 35 developers who shipped a Supernatural Tactical game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 47 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300, ×0.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120. 47 games are announced against 20 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper, while revenue is down 80% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $5.3k (exactly $5,273) |
| Top 5% | $233k (exactly $232,567) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 35 |
| Released games | 91 |
| Announced | 47 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 down 80% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tactical
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Supernatural
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Tactical; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Co-op, PvE
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Dark, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 1,648 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 8 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 47 games are announced against 20 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Phasmophobia 2020 · EA · $410M 
Total War: WARHAMMER 2016 · $58M 
Marvel's Midnight Suns 2022 · $31M 
Midnight Ghost Hunt 2024 · $3.3M 
Hard West 2015 · $2.5M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Phasmophobia | · EA older | $19.99 | 684,009 94% | 21M | $410M (exactly $410,200,197) | Kinetic Games |
| | Total War: WARHAMMER | older | $59.99 | 32,105 79% | 963k | $58M (exactly $57,779,368) | CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (L… (CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Linux), Feral Interactive (Mac)) |
| | Marvel's Midnight Suns | older | $59.99 | 17,060 82% | 512k | $31M (exactly $30,702,882) | Firaxis Games |
| | Midnight Ghost Hunt | older | $19.99 | 5,420 80% | 163k | $3.3M (exactly $3,250,374) | Vaulted Sky Games |
| | Hard West | older | $19.99 | 4,103 74% | 123k | $2.5M (exactly $2,460,569) | CreativeForge Games |
 | Hard West 2 | older | $29.99 | 2,717 80% | 82k | $2.4M (exactly $2,444,485) | Ice Code Games |
 | At Dead Of Night | older | $15.99 | 3,289 94% | 99k | $1.6M (exactly $1,577,733) | Baggy Cat Ltd. |
 | The Lamplighters League | older | $49.99 | 726 71% | 22k | $1.1M (exactly $1,088,782) | Harebrained Schemes |
 | Night is Coming | · EA | $24.99 | 387 59% | 12k | $290k (exactly $290,134) | Wild Forest Studio |
 | Contain | · EA older | $13.99 | 673 55% | 20k | $282k (exactly $282,458) | SinginGiant |
 | Project Unknown | $9.99 | 776 81% | 23k | $233k (exactly $232,567) | PsychoRavens | |
 | Deck of Souls | $11.99 | 153 84% | 4.6k | $55k (exactly $55,034) | Bigboot Studios | |
 | SONOKUNI | $14.99 | 109 98% | 3.3k | $49k (exactly $49,017) | DON YASA CREW | |
 | Deadly Quiet | $9.75 | 89 55% | 2.7k | $26k (exactly $26,032) | Tarba Paul Cornel, Abdul Rafy | |
 | TIC-TAC: Twelve o'clock | $9.99 | 31 80% | 930 | $9.3k (exactly $9,291) | ARMAG | |
 | SCP: Retrieval | · EA | $4.99 | 57 59% | 1.7k | $8.5k (exactly $8,533) | Arcsteel Games |
 | Expedition: Shadow World | $15.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $5.8k (exactly $5,756) | Pavel Tanonov | |
 | What Is The Ghost | · EA | $7.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $5.3k (exactly $5,273) | Deda Games |
 | Trial of Ariah | $11.95 | 12 91% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,302) | 30 Minute Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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