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Should I ship a WWI Tank game?
Tanks + World War I
Only 6 developers shipped a WWI Tank 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, KAISERPUNK, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×11 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 $1.4k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
| Top 25% | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) |
| Top 5% | $795k (exactly $795,335) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 80% fewer developers than 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.
- Tanks
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- World War I
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Tanks
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $34.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 229,155 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×11 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Tanks with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + HistoricalFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + Open WorldFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + Action RTSPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + TacticalPoor odds
Comparable games
Battlefield™ 1 2020 · $241M 
Sprocket 2021 · EA · $7.4M 
The Great War: Western Front™ 2023 · $2.9M 
Beyond The Wire 2022 · $1.6M 
NavalArt 2018 · EA · $1.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battlefield™ 1 | older | $39.99 | 200,661 86% | 6.0M | $241M (exactly $240,733,002) | DICE |
| | Sprocket | · EA older | $19.99 | 12,336 92% | 370k | $7.4M (exactly $7,397,899) | Hamish Dunn |
| | The Great War: Western Front™ | older | $34.99 | 2,733 66% | 82k | $2.9M (exactly $2,868,830) | Petroglyph |
| | Beyond The Wire | older | $9.99 | 5,247 68% | 157k | $1.6M (exactly $1,572,526) | Redstone Interactive |
| | NavalArt | · EA older | $19.99 | 2,362 90% | 71k | $1.4M (exactly $1,416,491) | Rigidbody |
 | KAISERPUNK | $29.99 | 884 71% | 27k | $795k (exactly $795,335) | Overseer Games | |
 | Model Builder: Complete Edition | older | $19.99 | 1,058 74% | 32k | $634k (exactly $634,483) | Moonlit S.A. |
 | Panzer War : Definitive Edition | older | $11.99 | 1,317 85% | 40k | $474k (exactly $473,725) | WindyVerse |
 | Armored Battle Crew [World War 1] - Tank Warfare and Crew Management Simulator | · EA older | $19.99 | 635 32% | 19k | $381k (exactly $380,809) | Gattai Games |
 | Stickman Trenches | older | $5.99 | 1,922 81% | 58k | $345k (exactly $345,383) | Big Play Games |
 | Tactics of World War I | $8.99 | 12 58% | 360 | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) | Headless Horseman Games | |
 | Cannon Clicker | $5.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Ritual Interactive | |
 | Toon Troops Strategy | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | New Angle Digital | |
 | Streamlands: Defense | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | NGD Studios | |
 | hotland | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | AdamasZ |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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