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Should I ship an Alien Hex Grid game?
Hex Grid + Aliens
Only 12 developers shipped an Alien Hex Grid 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, Clonizer, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.6k, ×5.6 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $65k, ×138 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) |
| Top 25% | $24k (exactly $23,740) |
| Top 5% | $66k (exactly $65,656) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Hex Grid
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 78% positive over 367 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Hex Grid with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
- + Card BattlerPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
Comparable games
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ 2014 · $17M 
Galactic Civilizations III 2015 · $7.5M 
Age of Wonders: Planetfall 2019 · $4.3M 
Shadow Empire 2020 · $1.7M 
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic) 2014 · $567k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ | older | $39.99 | 14,047 61% | 421k | $17M (exactly $16,852,186) | Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linu… (Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)) |
| | Galactic Civilizations III | older | $29.99 | 8,337 77% | 250k | $7.5M (exactly $7,500,799) | Stardock Entertainment |
| | Age of Wonders: Planetfall | older | $29.99 | 4,758 80% | 143k | $4.3M (exactly $4,280,773) | Triumph Studios |
| | Shadow Empire | older | $39.99 | 1,431 82% | 43k | $1.7M (exactly $1,716,771) | VR Designs |
| | Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic) | older | $19.99 | 945 81% | 28k | $567k (exactly $566,716) | Flashback Games, The Lordz Games Studio |
 | Pandora: First Contact | older | $29.99 | 538 61% | 16k | $484k (exactly $484,039) | Proxy Studios |
 | Codex of Victory | older | $14.99 | 260 69% | 7.8k | $117k (exactly $116,922) | Ino-Co Plus |
 | Clonizer | $14.99 | 146 82% | 4.4k | $66k (exactly $65,656) | Juicy Plume | |
 | Starport Delta | older | $24.99 | 60 66% | 1.8k | $45k (exactly $44,982) | Cloudfire Studios |
 | Eclipse - 2nd Dawn for the Galaxy | $12.99 | 95 57% | 2.9k | $37k (exactly $37,022) | BrettspielWelt GmbH | |
 | Astro Protocol | $11.99 | 66 93% | 2.0k | $24k (exactly $23,740) | Null Vector Studios | |
 | Xenowars | $19.99 | 31 83% | 930 | $19k (exactly $18,591) | Strategeion Studios | |
 | UniWar | $7.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $3.4k (exactly $3,356) | Spooky House | |
 | ErMa (Early Mammal) | $7.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | AlmyriganHero | |
 | Spore Valley | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Lystrosaurus Studio | |
 | Catnip Wars | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Ender Knight | |
 | Rabbit Comes Home | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ZIPSTED | |
 | 3096 | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hector Hedgecoat Industries |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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