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Should I ship a Wargame Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Wargame
Only 4 developers shipped a Wargame Survival Horror in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 15 did: 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.. 7 more are announced, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.0k against a market of $630. 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $12,028) |
| Top 5% | $16M (exactly $15,610,496) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Wargame
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Survival Horror, Wargame
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $39.99 or above
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 16,667 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 7 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Six Days in Fallujah 2023 · EA · $16M 
Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque 2022 · $418k 
The Light Remake 2020 · $219k 
Ogre 2017 · $167k 
ZombieCards 2025 · $42k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Six Days in Fallujah | · EA older | $39.99 | 13,012 79% | 390k | $16M (exactly $15,610,496) | Highwire Games |
| | Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque | older | $14.99 | 930 96% | 28k | $418k (exactly $418,221) | Nidal Nijm Games |
| | The Light Remake | older | $4.99 | 1,462 87% | 44k | $219k (exactly $218,861) | Носков Сергей |
| | Ogre | older | $24.99 | 223 66% | 6.7k | $167k (exactly $167,183) | Auroch Digital |
| | ZombieCards | $5.99 | 232 48% | 7.0k | $42k (exactly $41,690) | HotScent | |
 | Z-Collapse | older | $12.99 | 87 73% | 2.6k | $34k (exactly $33,904) | Pok&Co |
 | Epstein | older | $3.99 | 237 67% | 7.1k | $28k (exactly $28,369) | GalaxyVerse |
 | House of Lizards | older | $0.99 | 405 85% | 12k | $12k (exactly $12,028) | Ancient Russ |
 | Zombie Arena | · EA older | $1.99 | 57 63% | 1.7k | $3.4k (exactly $3,403) | Start Games |
 | The Bunker | $2.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $2.0k (exactly $1,973) | Cyber752 | |
 | PAATH-Z | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | TVirtual Studios | |
 | ResistanceZ | · EA | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | PloxLab |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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