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Should I ship a Space Sim Arena Shooter?
Arena Shooter + Space Sim
Only 9 developers shipped a Space Sim Arena Shooter 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, Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $59 in the last 2 years and $30 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 19 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $59 (exactly $59) |
| Top 25% | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 5% | $125k (exactly $125,431) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 up 175% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Arena Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Space Sim
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Arena Shooter, Space Sim
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $8.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 1,355 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Arena Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + IncrementalFair
- + DemonsFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Multiple EndingsFair
- + CollectathonLong shot
- + DeckbuildingPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
- + Class-BasedPoor odds
- + Boomer ShooterPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + On-Rails ShooterPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
Comparable games
Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite 2025 · $125k 
Star Survivor 2024 · $81k 
Aero Striker - World Invasion 2022 · $8.1k 
Enemy Engaged 2: Desert Operations 2022 · $4.0k 
Space Merchants: Arena 2016 · $3.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite | $5.99 | 698 83% | 21k | $125k (exactly $125,431) | RyanJakob | |
| | Star Survivor | $4.99 | 540 67% | 16k | $81k (exactly $80,838) | SpaceOwl Games, Erabit | |
| | Aero Striker - World Invasion | older | $14.99 | 18 83% | 540 | $8.1k (exactly $8,095) | EpiXR Games UG |
| | Enemy Engaged 2: Desert Operations | older | $8.99 | 15 40% | 450 | $4.0k (exactly $4,046) | G2 Games |
| | Space Merchants: Arena | older | $6.99 | 18 61% | 540 | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) | Playito.com |
 | CUBE-e 2 | older | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Piece Of Voxel |
 | Ardein.Fall | older | $4.99 | 19 78% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Alex Grade |
 | Debris Infinity | · EA older | $4.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | SVC Games |
 | Meteorites 3D | older | $4.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Digi Mask Games |
 | Warspace | older | $9.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Avenax |
 | Don't PANIC! | · EA | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | YuTech |
 | No Friends Space | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Scalions Studios | |
 | Void Breaker | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | KunlunWonderland | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | He WenYuan | |
 | Earth Space Defenders | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hetocode | |
 | Dime Nebula | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Wyso Sirius | |
 | KLAST | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ursavus LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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