Games › Fighting › Fighting + Space
Should I ship a Space Fighting game?
Fighting + Space
Only 7 developers shipped a Space Fighting 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, Astropods: Starside Glaze, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.9k against a market of $1.5k. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) |
| Top 25% | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $10,500) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 55% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting
- 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 $9.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 155,125 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.6k. 11 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fighting with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SandboxStrong odds
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + Souls-likePoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + Local Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
Comparable games
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019 · $184M 
STARWHAL 2014 · $178k 
Drone Swarm 2020 · $142k 
Rigid Force Alpha 2018 · $71k 
Aeon Must Die! 2021 · $60k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ | older | $39.99 | 153,782 88% | 4.6M | $184M (exactly $184,492,265) | Respawn Entertainment |
| | STARWHAL | older | $11.99 | 496 92% | 15k | $178k (exactly $178,411) | Breakfall |
| | Drone Swarm | older | $16.99 | 279 62% | 8.4k | $142k (exactly $142,206) | stillalive studios |
| | Rigid Force Alpha | older | $19.99 | 118 78% | 3.5k | $71k (exactly $70,765) | com8com1 Software |
| | Aeon Must Die! | older | $19.99 | 100 51% | 3.0k | $60k (exactly $59,970) | Limestone Games |
 | Proxy Blade Zero | older | $9.99 | 131 76% | 3.9k | $39k (exactly $39,261) | D6 |
 | Astro Duel | older | $9.99 | 72 95% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,578) | Rusty Moyher |
 | Freefall Tournament | older | $4.99 | 103 75% | 3.1k | $15k (exactly $15,419) | y8.com |
 | Astropods: Starside Glaze | $12.50 | 28 100% | 840 | $11k (exactly $10,500) | CheesiMoon, Breadbinbran | |
 | RAGER | $19.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Insane Prey | |
 | Pulsar Crash | $14.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | Little Doctor Games | |
 | Off the Beaten Track | $9.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Blackroot Studios | |
 | Bank King Simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | RRG Studio |
 | Sumorbit | $7.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $2.2k (exactly $2,157) | Jett Williams | |
 | Kosmo Skirmish | $4.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Jérémy Entressangle |
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.