Games › Tactical › Tactical + Walking Simulator
Should I ship a Walking Simulator Tactical game?
Tactical + Walking Simulator
Only 10 developers shipped a Walking Simulator Tactical game 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, TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120. Revenue is down 40% on the market, with 7 games announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $3.4k (exactly $3,358) |
| Top 5% | $229k (exactly $228,742) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 7 |
| 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 40% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Walking Simulator
- 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, Walking Simulator
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 78% positive over 1,567 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Tactical with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Football (American)Strong odds
- + Mystery DungeonStrong odds
- + Dating SimFair
- + 6DOFFair
- + Word GameFair
- + TypingFair
- + DwarvesFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + Dynamic NarrationFair
- + Farming SimFair
- + SolitaireFair
- + LGBTQ+Fair
Comparable games
Takedown: Red Sabre 2014 · $531k 
TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer 2026 · $229k 
Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory 2024 · $185k 
Adventures with Alan Parkour 3D 2023 · $16k 
The Hermit Chronicles 2023 · $12k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Takedown: Red Sabre | older | $4.99 | 3,550 41% | 107k | $531k (exactly $531,435) | Serellan LLC |
| | TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer | $4.99 | 1,528 78% | 46k | $229k (exactly $228,742) | AZAMATIKA | |
| | Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory | older | $9.99 | 618 89% | 19k | $185k (exactly $185,215) | Rockodile |
| | Adventures with Alan Parkour 3D | older | $39.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $16k (exactly $15,596) | Gamesforgames |
| | The Hermit Chronicles | older | $9.99 | 39 64% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | WinterTent Studio |
 | Just Skill Shooter 4 | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Gamesforgames | |
 | KAGIDOKO : A Deep Learning Horror Game | · EA older | $3.99 | 32 100% | 960 | $3.8k (exactly $3,830) | SeungGeon Kim |
 | RadioWave | · EA | $13.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $3.4k (exactly $3,358) | Redthrower Games |
 | Scared Tube | · EA older | $5.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | Shinobi Man |
 | KOSHMAR | older | $5.99 | 8 37% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | SharkGames |
 | IROONI - Color Tag - | $3.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $718 (exactly $718) | North Fox Games | |
 | Sprint Star - A Running Manager | $2.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | 3KnightsDevelopment | |
 | Rat's Contracts | · EA | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Numinxter |
 | Backrooms: The Entity | · EA | $1.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | SUDT Games |
 | POPOLOGIST® Camera Slinger | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Joe Rey, POPOLOGY® Networks | |
 | Endless Night | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | CreeperGuy1189, EliTheCool09, CoffeeCak… (CreeperGuy1189, EliTheCool09, CoffeeCake, BloodEHawk) | |
 | Jump Now | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Now1K |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.