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Should I ship a Conspiracy Economy game?
Economy + Conspiracy
Only 8 developers shipped a Conspiracy Economy 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, Merchants of Rosewall, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 34 more are announced, ×17 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $540 against a market of $630. 34 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 25% | $9.9k (exactly $9,890) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,394) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 34 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Economy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Conspiracy
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Economy
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 3,110 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 34 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×17 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Economy with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Football (Soccer)Fair
- + ScienceFair
- + MiningFair
- + LootFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + God GameFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Strategy RPGFair
Comparable games
Shadows of Forbidden Gods 2023 · $627k 
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 2023 · $541k 
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War 2019 · $481k 
Secret Government 2021 · $149k 
The Shadow Government Simulator 2022 · $30k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Shadows of Forbidden Gods | older | $19.99 | 1,046 91% | 31k | $627k (exactly $627,286) | Bobby Two Hands |
| | Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 | older | $24.99 | 721 86% | 22k | $541k (exactly $540,534) | Maestro Cinetik |
| | Sigma Theory: Global Cold War | older | $17.99 | 892 77% | 27k | $481k (exactly $481,412) | Mi-Clos Studio, Goblinz Studio, FibreTi… (Mi-Clos Studio, Goblinz Studio, FibreTigre) |
| | Secret Government | older | $19.99 | 249 52% | 7.5k | $149k (exactly $149,325) | GameTrek |
| | The Shadow Government Simulator | older | $9.99 | 100 75% | 3.0k | $30k (exactly $29,970) | Chupacabra Game Studios |
 | Merchants of Rosewall | $19.99 | 19 63% | 570 | $11k (exactly $11,394) | Big Blue Sky Games | |
 | Statecraft: Corrupted Democracy | $9.99 | 33 90% | 990 | $9.9k (exactly $9,890) | Engincan Çiçek, Bad Engine Studio | |
 | Hedge Fund Tycoon | older | $5.99 | 24 45% | 720 | $4.3k (exactly $4,313) | Stikcy |
 | Lhama Clicker | $4.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Clicker | |
 | Just Power: The Papal States | older | $4.99 | 13 38% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Stikcy Games |
 | The Tavern Tales: Medieval Simulator | · EA | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Flash Ray Games |
 | Balkan Bloodbath | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Michael Richard Lannon | |
 | Neo-Exodus: Last Bastion | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | GODev Games | |
 | Letters Of Art | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | DreamlessHero | |
 | Meow World Order | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Spiritual Opium |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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