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Flight + Cats
Only 6 developers shipped a Cat Flight 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, Dog of Wisdom, 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: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $630, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $390. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $386 (exactly $386) |
|---|---|
| Median | $629 (exactly $629) |
| Top 25% | $802 (exactly $802) |
| Top 5% | $8.5k (exactly $8,499) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 26%, 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
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight
- 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 1,090 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $390. 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Choose Your Own AdventureFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Quick-Time EventsFair
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + MiningPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
Kitten Burst 2024 · $230k 
QP Shooting - Dangerous!! 2014 · $91k 
SEARCH ALL - CATS 2022 · $12k 
Flying Neko Delivery 2022 · $9.9k 
Avian Enigma 2024 · $8.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Kitten Burst | older | $19.99 | 384 98% | 12k | $230k (exactly $230,285) | Jam2go |
| | QP Shooting - Dangerous!! | older | $7.99 | 378 94% | 11k | $91k (exactly $90,607) | Orange_Juice |
| | SEARCH ALL - CATS | older | $2.99 | 135 85% | 4.1k | $12k (exactly $12,110) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | Flying Neko Delivery | older | $14.99 | 22 63% | 660 | $9.9k (exactly $9,893) | Fractal Phase |
| | Avian Enigma | older | $7.99 | 36 75% | 1.1k | $8.6k (exactly $8,629) | Aako Inc, Otter Club |
 | Dog of Wisdom | $3.99 | 71 83% | 2.1k | $8.5k (exactly $8,499) | Joe Gran | |
 | Flying Hero X | older | $9.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Red Android, EpiXR Games UG |
 | Action Ball | older | $6.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) | Rionix |
 | Useful Cat | older | $4.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | HotFoodGames |
 | Ratfall | · EA | $0.99 | 27 88% | 810 | $802 (exactly $802) | charlesfactorydev |
 | Cosmic Cat | $6.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | theSoulGrinder | |
 | Nocto And The Ray Of Light | $13.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $420 (exactly $420) | Spacefarer Retro Remasters LLC | |
 | Seema's Pogo | $0.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $386 (exactly $386) | Kazarma, Torpedo Moskau | |
 | Seema's Pogo 2 Top Of The World | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Kazarma |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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