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Should I ship a Collectathon Space Sim?
Space Sim + Collectathon
Only 9 developers shipped a Collectathon Space Sim 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, Farlands, 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, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.6k, ×2.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $210; 1 in 20 cleared $870k, ×1399 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 19 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) |
| Top 25% | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) |
| Top 5% | $879k (exactly $878,632) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 29 |
| 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 down 55% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Space Sim
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Collectathon
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Space Sim, Collectathon
- 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 $13.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 3,653 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Space Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DestructionFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + WarFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SportsFair
- + DiplomacyLong shot
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Farlands 2026 · $879k 
Galactic Mining Corp 2021 · $338k 
Digger: Galactic Treasures 2025 · $106k 
Insiders 2021 · $17k 
The Last Hope 2016 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Farlands | $17.99 | 1,628 89% | 49k | $879k (exactly $878,632) | JanduSoft, Eric Rodríguez | |
| | Galactic Mining Corp | older | $12.99 | 868 84% | 26k | $338k (exactly $338,260) | Windybeard |
| | Digger: Galactic Treasures | $4.99 | 711 87% | 21k | $106k (exactly $106,437) | RainStyle games | |
| | Insiders | older | $13.99 | 40 80% | 1.2k | $17k (exactly $16,788) | ANG People s.r.o. |
| | The Last Hope | older | $1.99 | 268 46% | 8.0k | $16k (exactly $16,000) | Balti Calarasi |
 | Space Ribbon - Slipstream to the Extreme | older | $3.99 | 71 57% | 2.1k | $8.5k (exactly $8,499) | Onteca Ltd |
 | Accretion | $9.99 | 21 38% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | ValarFerys | |
 | Metapilot | older | $19.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $6.0k (exactly $5,997) | neurobotx, www.neurobotx.ai |
 | My Idle Space Cruiser | $2.99 | 24 83% | 720 | $2.2k (exactly $2,153) | Minicactus Games | |
 | Periphery Synthetic | older | $4.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | shiftBacktick |
 | Stellar Industrialist | $2.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) | PcZ Games | |
 | Sad Virus Space | $2.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | DIG Games | |
 | Only Up To Space | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Mascot Bro Studio, PixelHixel Games | |
 | Warping War Pig | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | bankbank | |
 | SMBH : Super Massive Black Hole | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | てづくりギンガ |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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