Games › Life Sim › Life Sim + Conspiracy
Should I ship a Conspiracy Life Sim?
Life Sim + Conspiracy
Only 12 developers shipped a Conspiracy Life 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, Photomaly, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.1k, ×13 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $540; 1 in 20 cleared $270k, ×570 the market median. Revenue is up 405% on the market; 26 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $538 (exactly $538) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.1k (exactly $6,090) |
| Top 25% | $110k (exactly $110,176) |
| Top 5% | $271k (exactly $270,932) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 up 405% on the market, supply 200% 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.
- Life Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Conspiracy
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Life Sim
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 3,426 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $540. 26 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Life Sim with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVStrong odds
- + MinigamesStrong odds
- + MusicStrong odds
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Football (Soccer)Fair
- + FaithFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + GamblingFair
- + DemonsFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + LogicFair
- + ZombiesFair
Comparable games
Fetish Locator Week One 2020 · $725k 
Photomaly 2026 · $271k 
CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck 2025 · $251k 
I Am Your President 2023 · $118k 
Shale Hill Secrets 2025 · $110k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fetish Locator Week One | older | $9.99 | 2,418 84% | 73k | $725k (exactly $724,675) | ViNovella Games |
| | Photomaly | $6.99 | 1,292 89% | 39k | $271k (exactly $270,932) | Revira Interactive | |
| | CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck | $4.99 | 1,680 93% | 50k | $251k (exactly $251,496) | Team SNEED | |
| | I Am Your President | older | $14.99 | 263 66% | 7.9k | $118k (exactly $118,271) | President |
| | Shale Hill Secrets | $14.99 | 245 80% | 7.4k | $110k (exactly $110,176) | Love-Joint | |
 | Booth: A Dystopian Adventure | older | $9.99 | 354 88% | 11k | $106k (exactly $106,094) | Guanpeng Chen |
 | The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening | older | $1.99 | 413 93% | 12k | $25k (exactly $24,656) | Randumb Studios |
 | The State of Nowhere | $19.99 | 26 88% | 780 | $16k (exactly $15,592) | Anomaly Works | |
 | Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY! | $4.99 | 98 90% | 2.9k | $15k (exactly $14,671) | Domnaier | |
 | Gobby McGobblenutz Presents - The Questionably Quirky Quiz Show | older | $1.99 | 140 98% | 4.2k | $8.4k (exactly $8,358) | Randumb Studios |
 | Symptoms of Infection | · EA | $3.50 | 58 89% | 1.7k | $6.1k (exactly $6,090) | ORB Research & Broadcasting |
 | ToDo LisT 783 | $5.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) | Rainy City Productions | |
 | Legacy of Ancestors | · EA | $6.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $1.3k (exactly $1,258) | 命运测试 |
 | The Tavern Tales: Medieval Simulator | · EA | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Flash Ray Games |
 | Gatekeeper Simulator: Inner Circle | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Revolt Entertainment |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.