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Vehicular Combat + Turn-Based Combat
Only 6 developers shipped a Turn-Based Combat Vehicular Combat 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, Snow Ash, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×6.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
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 $2.3k against a market of $630. 25 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.3k (exactly $2,279) |
| Top 25% | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) |
| Top 5% | $80k (exactly $80,496) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Turn-Based Combat
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Vehicular Combat, Turn-Based Combat
- Price point
- $11.99 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 2,957 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 25 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
The Troop 2023 · $979k 
Headquarters: World War II 2024 · $609k 
METAL MAX Xeno Reborn 2022 · $533k 
Death Roads: Tournament 2023 · $328k 
Snow Ash 2026 · $80k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Troop | older | $39.99 | 816 83% | 24k | $979k (exactly $978,955) | Giant Flame |
| | Headquarters: World War II | older | $39.99 | 508 74% | 15k | $609k (exactly $609,448) | Starni Games |
| | METAL MAX Xeno Reborn | older | $39.99 | 444 65% | 13k | $533k (exactly $532,667) | 24Frame,inc. |
| | Death Roads: Tournament | older | $14.99 | 729 80% | 22k | $328k (exactly $327,831) | The Knights of Unity |
| | Snow Ash | $14.99 | 179 73% | 5.4k | $80k (exactly $80,496) | Ember Studio | |
 | Wings of Glory | older | $14.99 | 92 80% | 2.8k | $41k (exactly $41,372) | Dire Wolf |
 | Racingmaybe | older | $9.99 | 77 100% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,077) | Jhoffis |
 | Dead Hand | older | $19.99 | 31 80% | 930 | $19k (exactly $18,591) | One Man Army Games |
 | Dog Duty | older | $4.99 | 60 68% | 1.8k | $9.0k (exactly $8,982) | Zanardi and Liza |
 | Granser - Act 1 | $9.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Steve Gal | |
 | Oath of Steel | $18.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $2.3k (exactly $2,279) | Ling Jun | |
 | Assault Commander Rearmed | $11.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | VTDev Informatikai Kft. | |
 | Astro Miners | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Jinx Digital | |
 | Daily War Online | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Xorbis |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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