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Should I ship a WWII Tower Defense?
Tower Defense + World War II
Only 11 developers shipped a WWII Tower Defense 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, Warfare Legacy Collection, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 6 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers 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. 6 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
| Top 25% | $18k (exactly $18,114) |
| Top 5% | $334k (exactly $334,166) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 6 |
| 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 up 2320% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tower Defense
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- World War II
- 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
- Tower Defense
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 1,546 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 6 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 6 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Tower Defense with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + PuzzleFair
- + Gun CustomizationFair
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Comparable games
Toy Soldiers: Complete 2016 · $445k 
Toy Soldiers 2012 · $408k 
Warfare Legacy Collection 2025 · $334k 
Beach Invasion 1944 2022 · $311k 
Grit and Valor - 1949 2025 · $164k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Toy Soldiers: Complete | older | $14.99 | 989 78% | 30k | $445k (exactly $444,753) | Signal Studios, Krome Studios |
| | Toy Soldiers | older | $9.99 | 1,362 88% | 41k | $408k (exactly $408,191) | Signal Studios |
| | Warfare Legacy Collection | $9.99 | 1,115 92% | 33k | $334k (exactly $334,166) | Con Artist Games | |
| | Beach Invasion 1944 | older | $9.99 | 1,038 84% | 31k | $311k (exactly $311,089) | AIx2 Games |
| | Grit and Valor - 1949 | $19.99 | 274 75% | 8.2k | $164k (exactly $164,318) | Milky Tea Studios | |
 | Skirmish Line | older | $9.99 | 353 87% | 11k | $106k (exactly $105,794) | The Snarktopus |
 | Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific | older | $9.99 | 255 78% | 7.7k | $76k (exactly $76,424) | AIx2 Games |
 | iBomber Defense Pacific | older | $5.99 | 155 85% | 4.7k | $28k (exactly $27,854) | Cobra Mobile |
 | Blitzkrieg Express | $4.99 | 121 74% | 3.6k | $18k (exactly $18,114) | Maksym Melnyk | |
 | Pact of Steel | $14.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Steel Potato Games LLC | |
 | America Against Ants | $14.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Aartform Games, Mark Brendan | |
 | Cannon Clicker | $5.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Ritual Interactive | |
 | FLAAK TD | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Oedipe Games, Oedipe Games | |
 | Streamlands: Defense | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | NGD Studios | |
 | Sparkfront: Online | $0.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Selçuk Oruç | |
 | Summer of Hengyang in 1944 | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | LI XITAO |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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