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Should I ship a Top-Down Shooter Turn-Based Tactics?
Turn-Based Tactics + Top-Down Shooter
Only 10 developers shipped a Top-Down Shooter Turn-Based Tactics 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, Enter the Chronosphere, 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.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 8 developers shipped in the last year and 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,618) |
| Top 5% | $189k (exactly $188,874) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 26%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Turn-Based Tactics
- 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
- Turn-Based Tactics, Top-Down Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 94% positive over 438 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 16 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate 2022 · $1.8M 
No Plan B 2024 · $342k 
Enter the Chronosphere 2026 · EA · $189k 
Tactical Combat Department 2022 · $16k 
NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics 2017 · $9.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate | older | $9.99 | 5,918 92% | 178k | $1.8M (exactly $1,773,625) | PUNKCAKE Delicieux |
| | No Plan B | older | $14.99 | 761 86% | 23k | $342k (exactly $342,222) | GFX47 |
| | Enter the Chronosphere | · EA | $14.99 | 420 94% | 13k | $189k (exactly $188,874) | Effort Star |
| | Tactical Combat Department | older | $4.99 | 108 61% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $16,168) | LukasH |
| | NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics | older | $3.99 | 78 80% | 2.3k | $9.3k (exactly $9,337) | Post Mortem Pixels |
 | Bug Butcher | older | $4.99 | 29 72% | 870 | $4.3k (exactly $4,341) | Chuvdji |
 | Ultrazone | older | $9.99 | 13 76% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Gamesforgames |
 | Delphyq | · EA older | $14.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $2.7k (exactly $2,698) | Dusk Wave Arts LLC |
 | Space Grunts: Chrono Shard | $15.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.9k (exactly $1,919) | Orangepixel | |
 | Rootin' Tootin' Lootin' & Shootin' | $8.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.6k (exactly $1,618) | Raspberry Jam | |
 | Intergalactic Cleaning Squad | $4.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Rigid Games | |
 | Bweh | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | mrcringedk | |
 | Clock Shooter | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | 4dimonk | |
 | Mutant Slime : Survivor Team | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BSE Tech | |
 | Final battle in zhifudao | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | JIANGFENG | |
 | Quixotic | $34.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Quixotic | |
 | Tilebound:Mahjong Survivors | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BambooByte Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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