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Should I ship a Physics Baseball game?
Baseball + Physics
Only 8 developers shipped a Physics 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, Super Psycho Baseball, 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: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 10 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) |
| Top 5% | $35k (exactly $35,180) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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, Physics
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 20,715 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 10 games are announced against 6 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
- + ArcadeLong shot
Comparable games
FlatOut 2 2006 · $5.8M 
All-In-One Sports VR 2023 · $420k 
iB Cricket 2020 · EA · $112k 
Super Psycho Baseball 2025 · $35k 
Indoor Kickball 2023 · $21k | 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) |
| | All-In-One Sports VR | older | $19.99 | 700 84% | 21k | $420k (exactly $419,790) | Appnori Inc. |
| | iB Cricket | · EA older | $29.99 | 124 91% | 3.7k | $112k (exactly $111,563) | ProYuga Advanced Technologies Ltd |
| | Super Psycho Baseball | $4.99 | 235 92% | 7.1k | $35k (exactly $35,180) | internetcharles | |
| | Indoor Kickball | older | $14.99 | 47 78% | 1.4k | $21k (exactly $21,136) | Snow Day Software |
 | Rocket Skates VR | older | $9.99 | 53 81% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $15,884) | EpiXR Games UG |
 | Indoor Baseball | $14.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | Snow Day Software | |
 | 漂流瓶盖 Drifting Bottle Cap | older | $5.99 | 33 90% | 990 | $5.9k (exactly $5,930) | 馆叔, 猫多游戏 |
 | Power of Petanque | older | $6.07 | 23 100% | 690 | $4.2k (exactly $4,188) | Waïju |
 | 2D Baseball Duel | older | $2.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) | Largemann |
 | Tabletop Baseball | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Dumb Duck Games | |
 | Bat & Ball | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | BritishInteractive | |
 | Yips! | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | C.S.G | |
 | Bubble Ball! | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Isaac Madsen | |
 | Physics Puzzle Ball | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DotDot Games | |
 | Pickleball | $10.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Viniot Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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