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Should I ship an Arcade Baseball game?
Baseball + Arcade
Only 15 developers shipped an Arcade Baseball 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, Backyard Baseball, 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: long shot, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×0.6 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $670k, ×448 the market median. Revenue is up 115% on the market; 12 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $133 (exactly $133) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) |
| Top 5% | $671k (exactly $670,729) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 55 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 up 115% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Baseball, Arcade; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Sports, Simulation
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 7 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cartoon, Colorful, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 4,412 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $140. 8 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Baseball with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + PvPFair
- + StrategyFair
- + SimulationFair
- + SportsFair
- + ActionFair
- + PhysicsDead
Comparable games
FlatOut 2 2006 · $5.8M 
Super Mega Baseball 3 2020 · $2.5M 
Backyard Baseball 2026 · $1.5M 
Backyard Baseball '97 2024 · $671k 
All-In-One Sports VR 2023 · $420k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | FlatOut 2 | older | $9.99 | 19,466 95% | 584k | $5.8M (exactly $5,833,960) | Bugbear Entertainment, ZOOM Platform Me… (Bugbear Entertainment, ZOOM Platform Media, Jordan Freeman Group) |
| | Super Mega Baseball 3 | older | $44.99 | 1,832 92% | 55k | $2.5M (exactly $2,472,650) | Metalhead Software Inc. |
| | Backyard Baseball | $39.99 | 1,210 80% | 36k | $1.5M (exactly $1,451,637) | Mega Cat Studios | |
| | Backyard Baseball '97 | $9.99 | 2,238 97% | 67k | $671k (exactly $670,729) | Mega Cat Studios | |
| | All-In-One Sports VR | older | $19.99 | 700 84% | 21k | $420k (exactly $419,790) | Appnori Inc. |
 | Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings | older | $12.99 | 723 91% | 22k | $282k (exactly $281,753) | Metalhead Software Inc. |
 | Backyard Baseball '01 | $9.99 | 662 92% | 20k | $198k (exactly $198,401) | Mega Cat Studios | |
 | TOTALLY BASEBALL | older | $14.99 | 149 87% | 4.5k | $67k (exactly $67,005) | ZEVO GAMES |
 | World League Baseball | older | $14.99 | 113 69% | 3.4k | $51k (exactly $50,816) | HAEGIN Co.,Ltd. |
 | Home Run High | older | $8.99 | 155 72% | 4.7k | $42k (exactly $41,804) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | Super Psycho Baseball | $4.99 | 235 92% | 7.1k | $35k (exactly $35,180) | internetcharles | |
 | Indoor Baseball | $14.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | Snow Day Software | |
 | Diceball | $9.99 | 23 69% | 690 | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) | Ducknest Games | |
 | holoBase | $12.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $5.5k (exactly $5,456) | Clover Lab.,inc. | |
 | Accolade Sports Collection (QUByte Classics) | $19.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) | QUByte Interactive | |
 | The TEAM game:Corgi&me | $5.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | Surgical | |
 | Baseball Club | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | BoomBit |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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