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Should I ship a Spaceship Action Roguelike?
Action Roguelike + Spaceships
Only 11 developers shipped a Spaceship Action Roguelike 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, Reality Break, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300, ×0.5 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240. Revenue is down 50% on the market, with 12 games announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) |
| Top 5% | $512k (exactly $512,045) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 down 50% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action Roguelike
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Spaceships
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Action Roguelike
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 747 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Action Roguelike with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Shortest Trip to Earth 2019 · $980k 
Reality Break 2025 · $512k 
Power of Ten 2023 · $89k 
Godrop 2024 · $73k 
Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime 2022 · EA · $54k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Shortest Trip to Earth | older | $25.99 | 1,257 76% | 38k | $980k (exactly $980,083) | Interactive Fate |
| | Reality Break | $24.99 | 683 80% | 20k | $512k (exactly $512,045) | Element Games, LLC | |
| | Power of Ten | older | $11.99 | 248 79% | 7.4k | $89k (exactly $89,206) | Pew Times Three |
| | Godrop | older | $8.99 | 269 93% | 8.1k | $73k (exactly $72,549) | KATOR Game Studio, ZeroCastle game Stud… (KATOR Game Studio, ZeroCastle game Studio) |
| | Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime | · EA older | $14.99 | 119 80% | 3.6k | $54k (exactly $53,514) | Spiritus Games |
 | I See Red | older | $9.99 | 106 90% | 3.2k | $32k (exactly $31,768) | Whiteboard Games |
 | Void Grimm | · EA older | $14.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) | Ravery |
 | Seven Suns of Orion | $4.99 | 22 100% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | FerroFerrous | |
 | Solar Survivors | older | $4.99 | 20 95% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | BoxFox Studios |
 | Broadside Renegades | older | $4.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Joseph Renzi |
 | Lonely tiny spaceship | $3.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) | Lonely bro | |
 | Intergalactic Defenders | · EA | $3.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.1k (exactly $1,077) | Mert TASKIRAN |
 | Fire Everything! | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | MindWroughtGames | |
 | HYPERDRIVE | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Archon | |
 | LasTar | $0.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $267 (exactly $267) | Cidev | |
 | Last Star | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Nordman | |
 | UFO BLAST | $1.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | odwar | |
 | Gamma Burst | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Ulysses Blackjohn |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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