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Should I ship a Visual Novel Wargame?
Wargame + Visual Novel
Only 8 developers shipped a Visual Novel Wargame 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, Missile Command Delta, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.1k against a market of $630. 18 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) |
| Top 25% | $18k (exactly $18,413) |
| Top 5% | $19k (exactly $18,591) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 18 |
| 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 up 20% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 22%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Wargame
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Visual Novel
- effort 2 / 10 · high · script, choices and static art
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Wargame, Visual Novel
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 68% positive over 235 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.1k. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Wargame with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + NavalFair
- + TabletopFair
- + LogicFair
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country 2023 · $103k 
Love n War: Hero by Chance II 2023 · $95k 
Elysium Above 履云录 2023 · EA · $64k 
Shikokushi ~food and sightseeing and beauties~ 2020 · $52k 
War of the Human Tanks - ALTeR 2015 · $31k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country | older | $13.99 | 246 90% | 7.4k | $103k (exactly $103,246) | tomadan |
| | Love n War: Hero by Chance II | older | $5.99 | 529 81% | 16k | $95k (exactly $95,061) | Reborn Entertainment |
| | Elysium Above 履云录 | · EA older | $24.99 | 85 83% | 2.6k | $64k (exactly $63,724) | 上海泼泼猫文化传媒有限公司 |
| | Shikokushi ~food and sightseeing and beauties~ | older | $19.99 | 86 75% | 2.6k | $52k (exactly $51,574) | Flying Panjandrum / ふらいんぐパンジャンドラム |
| | War of the Human Tanks - ALTeR | older | $12.99 | 80 95% | 2.4k | $31k (exactly $31,176) | Yakiniku Banzai |
 | Missile Command Delta | $19.99 | 31 83% | 930 | $19k (exactly $18,591) | 13AM Games, Mighty Yell | |
 | Sexy Iron Maidens | $4.99 | 123 69% | 3.7k | $18k (exactly $18,413) | Earl Marx | |
 | Three Kingdoms : Restoration of Han | $12.99 | 24 33% | 720 | $9.4k (exactly $9,353) | Playnauts | |
 | War of the Human Tanks - Limited Operations | older | $9.99 | 22 86% | 660 | $6.6k (exactly $6,593) | Yakiniku Banzai |
 | COPS 2170 The Power of Law | older | $11.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | GFI |
 | Hidden Heir | $4.99 | 21 66% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | AYS CODE YAZILIM | |
 | League Of Tacticians: Path of Tarkan | $5.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | Oba Games | |
 | Bridge Orders - Outrim: The Unseen Enemy | · EA | $9.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | POISOFT |
 | Monster Ops 2 | $4.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Y Press Games | |
 | Monster Ops 3 | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Y Press Games | |
 | Monster Ops 4 | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Y Press Games | |
 | Monster Ops 16 | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Y Press Game |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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