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Should I ship a Crime Political Sim?
Political Sim + Crime
Only 9 developers shipped a Crime Political 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, Rich List: The Order, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $31k, ×50 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 27 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $718 (exactly $718) |
| Top 25% | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) |
| Top 5% | $31k (exactly $31,479) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 700% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Political Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Crime
- 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
- Political Sim
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $11.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 8,243 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 27 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Political Sim with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DetectiveFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Board GameFair
- + TabletopFair
- + CombatPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + FuturisticPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
We. The Revolution 2019 · $1.2M 
Plutocracy 2019 · EA · $978k 
RIOT: Civil Unrest 2019 · $828k 
Shadows of Forbidden Gods 2023 · $627k 
JudgeSim 2024 · $289k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | We. The Revolution | older | $19.99 | 1,997 73% | 60k | $1.2M (exactly $1,197,601) | Polyslash |
| | Plutocracy | · EA older | $24.99 | 1,305 79% | 39k | $978k (exactly $978,358) | Redwood |
| | RIOT: Civil Unrest | older | $16.99 | 1,625 68% | 49k | $828k (exactly $828,262) | Leonard Menchiari, IV Productions, Ivan… (Leonard Menchiari, IV Productions, Ivan Venturi Productions) |
| | Shadows of Forbidden Gods | older | $19.99 | 1,046 91% | 31k | $627k (exactly $627,286) | Bobby Two Hands |
| | JudgeSim | older | $6.99 | 1,376 84% | 41k | $289k (exactly $288,547) | DelusionArt Studio |
 | This Is the President | older | $14.99 | 359 67% | 11k | $161k (exactly $161,442) | SuperPAC |
 | Interrogation: You will be deceived | older | $12.99 | 321 77% | 9.6k | $125k (exactly $125,094) | Critique Gaming |
 | Rich List: The Order | · EA | $14.99 | 70 90% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,479) | YUANYE TECH |
 | Jey's Empire | older | $14.99 | 68 85% | 2.0k | $31k (exactly $30,580) | Maestro Cinetik |
 | Justice.exe | · EA older | $11.99 | 76 57% | 2.3k | $27k (exactly $27,337) | Late Game Clutch |
 | Empire of Vice : Chicago | · EA | $16.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $4.6k (exactly $4,587) | Artifex Parvus |
 | EmpireX - Business, Real Estate and Crime Simulator | $14.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | darkwolf66 | |
 | Black Border 2 | $1.99 | 19 63% | 570 | $1.1k (exactly $1,134) | Bitzooma | |
 | Your Price, Your Honor. | $2.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $718 (exactly $718) | Red Comb Studios | |
 | Second Chance at a Billion | $10.00 | 2 50% | 60 | $600 (exactly $600) | ElderYew | |
 | Attorney Adventure | · EA | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Ambearth Games |
 | Dark Web: Vigilante | · EA | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Edgebyter_ |
 | Concord Quarter | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Morass |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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