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Should I ship a Historical 6DOF game?
6DOF + Historical
Only 5 developers shipped a paid Historical 6DOF 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, Maestro, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 in 10 of the games here are free to play and sit outside these figures. 17 more are announced, ×17 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $540 against a market of $630. 17 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $539 (exactly $539) |
| Top 25% | $1.1k (exactly $1,076) |
| Top 5% | $407k (exactly $407,087) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 45%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 6DOF
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Historical
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $10.00.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 6,002 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×17 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
6DOF with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RoguelikeFair
- + TacticalFair
- + RobotsFair
- + WarFair
- + Dark FantasyFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + RhythmPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
Walkabout Mini Golf VR 2021 · $2.3M 
Maestro 2024 · $407k 
Metro Simulator 2 2023 · $303k 
Broken Edge 2022 · $267k 
Buccaneers! 2022 · $208k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Walkabout Mini Golf VR | older | $24.99 | 3,094 97% | 93k | $2.3M (exactly $2,319,572) | Mighty Coconut |
| | Maestro | $24.99 | 543 96% | 16k | $407k (exactly $407,087) | Double Jack | |
| | Metro Simulator 2 | older | $14.99 | 674 65% | 20k | $303k (exactly $303,098) | KishMish Games |
| | Broken Edge | older | $14.99 | 593 86% | 18k | $267k (exactly $266,672) | TREBUCHET |
| | Buccaneers! | older | $17.99 | 386 82% | 12k | $208k (exactly $208,324) | Skyward Digital |
 | BRINK Traveler | older | $14.99 | 188 87% | 5.6k | $85k (exactly $84,544) | BRINK XR |
 | Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships | older | $7.99 | 245 76% | 7.4k | $59k (exactly $58,726) | Akella |
 | Sea Dogs | older | $11.99 | 162 75% | 4.9k | $58k (exactly $58,271) | Akella |
 | Uberlaufer | · EA older | $10.00 | 74 83% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $22,200) | Think Tank Decoy Software LLC |
 | The Line | older | $4.99 | 43 95% | 1.3k | $6.4k (exactly $6,437) | ARVORE |
 | Strigoi: The Vampire Legend | $2.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $1.1k (exactly $1,076) | SP GAMES | |
 | RE-ANIMATED | $5.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | Erratic Animist | |
 | Floating with Spirits | $4.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Cassette For Timescapes, Tarantula, Stu… (Cassette For Timescapes, Tarantula, Studio Biarritz) | |
 | Chinese Chess Way | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SeeingTec |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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