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Should I ship a Strategy Baseball game?
Baseball + Strategy
Only 14 developers shipped a Strategy 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, Out of the Park Baseball 26, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $7.5k, ×5.0 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $300. Revenue is up 95% on the market; 7 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) |
| Top 25% | $24k (exactly $24,292) |
| Top 5% | $1.2M (exactly $1,228,254) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $16.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, 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, Strategy; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Management, Resource Management, Simulation
- Price point
- $16.99 typical · top 25% priced $49.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 3D, Family Friendly
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $49.99 or above; the middle game at $16.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 2,525 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 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.
Comparable games
Out of the Park Baseball 26 2025 · $1.2M 
Out of the Park Baseball 27 2026 · $712k 
Titanium Court 2026 · $492k 
iB Cricket 2020 · EA · $112k 
TOTALLY BASEBALL 2021 · $67k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Out of the Park Baseball 26 | $49.99 | 819 82% | 25k | $1.2M (exactly $1,228,254) | Out of the Park Developments | |
| | Out of the Park Baseball 27 | $49.99 | 475 82% | 14k | $712k (exactly $712,358) | Out of the Park Developments | |
| | Titanium Court | $14.99 | 1,094 94% | 33k | $492k (exactly $491,972) | AP Thomson | |
| | iB Cricket | · EA older | $29.99 | 124 91% | 3.7k | $112k (exactly $111,563) | ProYuga Advanced Technologies Ltd |
| | TOTALLY BASEBALL | older | $14.99 | 149 87% | 4.5k | $67k (exactly $67,005) | ZEVO GAMES |
 | 长明火计划 Project: Eternal Flame | older | $19.99 | 77 88% | 2.3k | $46k (exactly $46,177) | 唐扬Studio |
 | Home Run High | older | $8.99 | 155 72% | 4.7k | $42k (exactly $41,804) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | Trivia Vault Baseball Trivia | older | $13.99 | 75 69% | 2.3k | $31k (exactly $31,478) | Ripknot Systems |
 | College Baseball: Dynasty Builder | $24.99 | 34 97% | 1.0k | $25k (exactly $25,490) | Rainey Studios | |
 | Digital Diamond Baseball V12 | older | $29.99 | 28 92% | 840 | $25k (exactly $25,192) | Curiosity Computing |
 | Digital Diamond Baseball V13 | $29.99 | 27 88% | 810 | $24k (exactly $24,292) | Curiosity Computing | |
 | Game Pulse Payoff Pitch | $49.95 | 9 66% | 270 | $13k (exactly $13,486) | Fireside Experience | |
 | Road to Omaha: College Baseball Dynasty | $19.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Brent Lane | |
 | Hakoniwa Base Ball | $9.99 | 25 100% | 750 | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) | Alybe Aria | |
 | Diceball | $9.99 | 23 69% | 690 | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) | Ducknest Games | |
 | Digital Diamond Baseball V14 | $34.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $6.3k (exactly $6,298) | Curiosity Computing |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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