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Should I ship a Colony Sim Flight game?
Colony Sim + Flight
Only 6 developers shipped a Colony Sim 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, Ground of Aces, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
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. 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.7k (exactly $9,742) |
| Top 25% | $816k (exactly $815,617) |
| Top 5% | $1.3M (exactly $1,273,076) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 12 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Colony Sim
- 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
- Colony Sim, 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 10 games average 78% positive over 3,740 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.6k. 12 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Colony Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Action RPGPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + MarsPoor odds
Comparable games
Tower! Simulator 3 2022 · $1.9M 
Ground of Aces 2025 · EA · $1.3M 
Solargene 2026 · $816k 
Jumbo Airport Story 2023 · $96k 
Hazeron Starship 2023 · $33k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tower! Simulator 3 | older | $59.99 | 1,047 67% | 31k | $1.9M (exactly $1,884,286) | FeelThere |
| | 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 | |
| | Jumbo Airport Story | older | $8.99 | 355 89% | 11k | $96k (exactly $95,744) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
| | 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 |
 | Rise - The Vieneo Province | older | $19.99 | 16 68% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Unistellar Industries, LLC |
 | Search of Galaxy | · EA older | $9.99 | 25 52% | 750 | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) | DRAGONnoid |
 | Rocket Engineer | · EA | $9.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Xavier B. |
 | ORBITAL | $9.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Night Sky Dogs | |
 | Cockroach Simulation | $6.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | WIZWIN |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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