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Should I ship a Dystopian Flight game?
Flight + Dystopian
Only 9 developers shipped a Dystopian 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, G-Rebels, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced, ×5.5 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 $1.7k against a market of $630. 22 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.7k (exactly $1,709) |
| Top 25% | $18k (exactly $17,982) |
| Top 5% | $229k (exactly $228,524) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 22 |
| 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 up 4135% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight
- 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 1,269 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 22 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Choose Your Own AdventureFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Quick-Time EventsFair
- + CatsFair
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + MiningPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
Comparable games
Pacer 2020 · $691k 
G-Rebels 2026 · EA · $229k 
Police Helicopter Simulator 2018 · $50k 
Deep Space Exploitation 2025 · $35k 
Cosmic Miners 2025 · EA · $18k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Pacer | older | $39.99 | 576 72% | 17k | $691k (exactly $691,027) | R8 Games Ltd |
| | G-Rebels | · EA | $29.99 | 254 79% | 7.6k | $229k (exactly $228,524) | Reakktor Studios |
| | Police Helicopter Simulator | older | $19.99 | 83 49% | 2.5k | $50k (exactly $49,775) | VIS-Games |
| | Deep Space Exploitation | $8.99 | 131 96% | 3.9k | $35k (exactly $35,331) | JuhrJuhr | |
| | Cosmic Miners | · EA | $9.99 | 60 53% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,982) | bitByte Games |
 | Tex Murphy: Mean Streets | older | $5.99 | 69 75% | 2.1k | $12k (exactly $12,399) | Access Software |
 | Timewell: Trail of Celestes | older | $17.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $11k (exactly $10,794) | OZBER CIN |
 | Liberation | older | $15.99 | 22 81% | 660 | $11k (exactly $10,553) | Classyk Games |
 | Warplane inc. | older | $6.99 | 42 69% | 1.3k | $8.8k (exactly $8,807) | Nuclear Games |
 | The Last Golfer | $19.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) | Karthik Subramanyam, Andrew Laing | |
 | Under Destruction | · EA | $18.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.7k (exactly $1,709) | Quantum Dynamics |
 | Amazoom Blimp Jockey '69 | · EA | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Lofty Games |
 | Gods Of Fire | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Nest of Games | |
 | Missile Pilot | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | J. A. Davies | |
 | Struggle | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Galactic Lake |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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