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Should I ship a Flight City Builder?
City Builder + Flight
Only 8 developers shipped a Flight City Builder 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, Ground of Aces, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $9.7k against a market of $630. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.7k (exactly $9,742) |
| Top 25% | $816k (exactly $815,617) |
| Top 5% | $1.3M (exactly $1,273,076) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 down 100% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- City Builder
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Flight
- 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
- City Builder, Flight
- Price point
- $12.99 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 $34.99 or above; the middle game at $17.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 50,551 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
City Builder with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Visual NovelStrong odds
- + LogicFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + RacingLong shot
- + RomePoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + HorrorPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
Comparable games
Transport Fever 2 2019 · $32M 
Transport Fever 2016 · $8.3M 
Airport CEO 2021 · $5.8M 
SimAirport 2020 · $2.9M 
Ground of Aces 2025 · EA · $1.3M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Transport Fever 2 | older | $39.99 | 26,714 89% | 801k | $32M (exactly $32,048,786) | Urban Games |
| | Transport Fever | older | $29.99 | 9,278 82% | 278k | $8.3M (exactly $8,347,417) | Urban Games |
| | Airport CEO | older | $24.99 | 7,752 83% | 233k | $5.8M (exactly $5,811,674) | Apog Labs |
| | SimAirport | older | $24.99 | 3,909 79% | 117k | $2.9M (exactly $2,930,577) | LVGameDev LLC |
| | Ground of Aces | · EA | $29.99 | 1,415 84% | 42k | $1.3M (exactly $1,273,076) | Blindflug Studios AG |
 | Solargene | $34.99 | 777 77% | 23k | $816k (exactly $815,617) | Alexander Semenov | |
 | Technicity | older | $17.99 | 200 75% | 6.0k | $108k (exactly $107,940) | Osaris Games |
 | Jumbo Airport Story | older | $8.99 | 355 89% | 11k | $96k (exactly $95,744) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | Terminal One | $19.99 | 96 66% | 2.9k | $58k (exactly $57,571) | Terminal Reality | |
 | Hazeron Starship | older | $19.99 | 55 70% | 1.7k | $33k (exactly $32,984) | Hazeron Freehold LLC |
 | soul Interface | · EA | $12.99 | 25 76% | 750 | $9.7k (exactly $9,742) | soulless technologies |
 | Terra Dice | $0.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $208 (exactly $208) | HawaGames | |
 | Hon Cars | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Bolfosu Nalic | |
 | Spider’s Climb | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | 夜行者 | |
 | Splatapult | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Recoil Mojo |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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