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Should I ship a War Time Management game?
Time Management + War
Only 13 developers shipped a War Time Management 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, Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 34 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $90; 1 in 20 cleared $52k, ×83 the market median. Revenue is down 15% on the market; 34 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $900 (exactly $900) |
| Top 25% | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) |
| Top 5% | $52k (exactly $52,293) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 34 |
| 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 down 15% on the market, supply 125% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Time Management
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- War
- 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
- Time Management
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 580 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 34 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Dummynation 2022 · $1.1M 
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis 2021 · $1.0M 
Carrier Deck 2017 · $312k 
My Child Lebensborn Remastered 2023 · $311k 
Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler 2025 · EA · $52k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dummynation | older | $11.99 | 3,127 88% | 94k | $1.1M (exactly $1,124,782) | Alejandro Hernández Ferrero |
| | Siege Survival: Gloria Victis | older | $24.99 | 1,367 79% | 41k | $1.0M (exactly $1,024,840) | Black Eye Games |
| | Carrier Deck | older | $9.99 | 1,040 89% | 31k | $312k (exactly $311,688) | Every Single Soldier |
| | My Child Lebensborn Remastered | older | $7.99 | 1,299 96% | 39k | $311k (exactly $311,370) | Teknopilot AS, Sarepta Studio AS |
| | Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler | · EA | $5.99 | 291 69% | 8.7k | $52k (exactly $52,293) | 5minlab Corp. |
 | SkyInFlames | · EA | $6.99 | 223 95% | 6.7k | $47k (exactly $46,763) | VasyliyBritva |
 | BoomTown! Deluxe | older | $5.99 | 196 84% | 5.9k | $35k (exactly $35,221) | Ish Games |
 | Sapper - Defuse The Bomb Simulator | older | $9.99 | 73 34% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,878) | Live Motion Games |
 | Project Of Cooling The Earth | older | $4.99 | 120 72% | 3.6k | $18k (exactly $17,964) | 人鱼工作室 |
 | Middle Age Conquest | older | $6.99 | 38 76% | 1.1k | $8.0k (exactly $7,969) | Musa GUNGOR |
 | FuJianStrike | $6.99 | 22 100% | 660 | $4.6k (exactly $4,613) | Mithril_055 | |
 | Pinevale Settlements | · EA | $7.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) | Kinetic Quasar Games |
 | Space War Economy Idle | $4.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | Chasm Studios | |
 | Black Border 2 | $1.99 | 19 63% | 570 | $1.1k (exactly $1,134) | Bitzooma | |
 | ARB: Alien Races Battle | · EA | $10.00 | 3 33% | 90 | $900 (exactly $900) | Raphael Tremblay |
 | Tales of Arcrath | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Codex Games USA | |
 | Lord Of Anatolia | $3.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | Mustafa Aykut Karacan | |
 | Way of the Wind | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | WastedWaffle |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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