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Should I ship a Top-Down Shooter Tactical RPG?
Tactical RPG + Top-Down Shooter
Only 12 developers shipped a Top-Down Shooter Tactical RPG 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, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.5k, ×8.8 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $320k, ×521 the market median. Revenue is up 2435% on the market; 16 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.5k (exactly $5,513) |
| Top 25% | $140k (exactly $140,080) |
| Top 5% | $327k (exactly $326,958) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 2435% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tactical RPG
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Top-Down Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Tactical RPG, Top-Down Shooter
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 86% positive over 2,362 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Tactical RPG with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Mystery DungeonFair
- + Space SimFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + WarPoor odds
Comparable games
The Shadow of Yidhra 2021 · $447k 
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum 2025 · $327k 
Trench Lord: Eastern Front 2026 · $278k 
Bioweaver 2024 · $140k 
Status One 2025 · $13k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Shadow of Yidhra | older | $10.99 | 1,355 89% | 41k | $447k (exactly $446,744) | WhitePeach |
| | Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum | $12.99 | 839 98% | 25k | $327k (exactly $326,958) | nodayshalleraseyou | |
| | Trench Lord: Eastern Front | $11.99 | 774 83% | 23k | $278k (exactly $278,408) | Tracer Studio, LING YUN CO.,LTD. | |
| | Bioweaver | $6.99 | 668 77% | 20k | $140k (exactly $140,080) | Emprom Game, Wild Kid Games | |
| | Status One | $14.99 | 30 73% | 900 | $13k (exactly $13,491) | LastCall Studio | |
 | NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics | older | $3.99 | 78 80% | 2.3k | $9.3k (exactly $9,337) | Post Mortem Pixels |
 | MagicCar of Delicious | $9.99 | 26 76% | 780 | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) | YINGGUO GAME | |
 | Dust & Courage: Jake Bolton’s Journey | $7.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $5.5k (exactly $5,513) | Storyforge Games | |
 | Dense forest | older | $9.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Gamesforgames |
 | Enemy Engaged 2: Desert Operations | older | $8.99 | 15 40% | 450 | $4.0k (exactly $4,046) | G2 Games |
 | Omega Luma : The First Battle | $12.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Mavi Game Studios | |
 | zombie tide incoming Rising | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | 末日行者/to the Eden | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 翥游 | |
 | XENO SIEGE | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | bulanke |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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