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Should I ship a Gun Customization Flight game?
Flight + Gun Customization
Only 5 developers shipped a Gun Customization 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, In The Black, 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, ×6.5 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 $240 against a market of $630. 26 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $61 (exactly $61) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $450 (exactly $450) |
| Top 5% | $50k (exactly $50,375) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Flight
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Gun Customization
- 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
- Flight, Gun Customization
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $7.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 55,045 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $61. 26 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + CraftingPoor odds
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- + EconomyPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
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Comparable games
Brick Rigs 2023 · $32M 
Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition 2021 · $249k 
Aggressor 2021 · EA · $103k 
In The Black 2026 · EA · $50k 
Nimbus INFINITY 2023 · $50k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Brick Rigs | older | $19.99 | 53,749 95% | 1.6M | $32M (exactly $32,233,275) | Fluppisoft GmbH |
| | Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition | older | $19.99 | 416 78% | 12k | $249k (exactly $249,475) | Phosphor Game Studios |
| | Aggressor | · EA older | $19.99 | 172 61% | 5.2k | $103k (exactly $103,148) | Flashpoint Studios |
| | In The Black | · EA | $19.99 | 84 72% | 2.5k | $50k (exactly $50,375) | Impeller Studios |
| | Nimbus INFINITY | older | $14.99 | 112 50% | 3.4k | $50k (exactly $50,366) | GameCrafterTeam, GameTomo Co., Ltd. |
 | Rocket Assault: Downhill Rush | older | $7.99 | 209 92% | 6.3k | $50k (exactly $50,097) | Giovanni Elgert |
 | Space Gray X | older | $29.99 | 40 80% | 1.2k | $36k (exactly $35,988) | Galactic Geckon |
 | Miner Gun Builder | older | $7.99 | 90 83% | 2.7k | $22k (exactly $21,573) | GermapurApps |
 | Space Elite Force | older | $2.99 | 157 89% | 4.7k | $14k (exactly $14,083) | Rising Moon Games |
 | Antiprism | older | $17.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $8.6k (exactly $8,635) | Zero Fun |
 | Rank: Warmaster Bunker Buster | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Laser Beams & Particle Streams Soft… (Laser Beams & Particle Streams Software, Inc.) | |
 | HELI 100 | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Tree Men Games | |
 | Ghost of Kyiv | $2.04 | 1 100% | 30 | $61 (exactly $61) | Jonald | |
 | Space Defense Special Force - The Origin of the Union | · EA | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ninetales Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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