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Should I ship an Incremental Flight game?
Flight + Incremental
Only 9 developers shipped an Incremental 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, Simple Airline Sim, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $0 against a market of $630. 7 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 5% | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Incremental
- effort 1 / 10 · high · formulas and upgrade tables
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight, Incremental
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 1,511 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 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
Visual Novel Sisters 2021 · $66k 
Bird 2021 · EA · $26k 
J15 Jet Fighter VR (歼15舰载机) 2018 · EA · $13k 
SEARCH ALL - CATS 2022 · $12k 
SEARCH ALL - FOXES 2021 · $9.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Visual Novel Sisters | older | $12.99 | 169 87% | 5.1k | $66k (exactly $65,859) | Quacky Games |
| | Bird | · EA older | $0.99 | 872 80% | 26k | $26k (exactly $25,898) | Meng Games |
| | J15 Jet Fighter VR (歼15舰载机) | · EA older | $9.99 | 44 47% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Magicvalley Studio |
| | SEARCH ALL - CATS | older | $2.99 | 135 85% | 4.1k | $12k (exactly $12,110) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | SEARCH ALL - FOXES | older | $2.99 | 107 92% | 3.2k | $9.6k (exactly $9,598) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Avian Enigma | older | $7.99 | 36 75% | 1.1k | $8.6k (exactly $8,629) | Aako Inc, Otter Club |
 | Aim in Space | older | $4.99 | 42 95% | 1.3k | $6.3k (exactly $6,287) | Serhii Khramov, Davyd Moskalenko, Maksy… (Serhii Khramov, Davyd Moskalenko, Maksym Kanshin) |
 | T. B. P. | older | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | SEARCH ALL - STEAMPUNK | older | $2.99 | 55 92% | 1.7k | $4.9k (exactly $4,934) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Space Colonizers Idle Clicker | older | $2.99 | 43 46% | 1.3k | $3.9k (exactly $3,857) | CapPlay Interactive Inc. |
 | Simple Airline Sim | $7.99 | 8 0% | 240 | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) | zedzag | |
 | Air Traffic Control | $12.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Urban Isotope | |
 | FLAAK TD | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Oedipe Games, Oedipe Games | |
 | Hap to Day | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Fenigem | |
 | Balloon Ride | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Karthick K | |
 | Avians Against Aviation | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Wechuw Games | |
 | Real Life Flappy Bird | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ian Charnas | |
 | Draw in the tray 2 | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Q drawer | |
 | This Ship Goes Brrr | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Raebek Computer Games LLP |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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