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Should I ship a Logic Flight game?
Flight + Logic
Only 12 developers shipped a Logic 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, I Fetch Rocks, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $52k, ×84 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 16 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $238 (exactly $238) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $23k (exactly $22,591) |
| Top 5% | $53k (exactly $52,767) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.00 |
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 down 100% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 21%, 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, Logic
- Price point
- $9.00 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 89% positive over 295 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + TradingPoor odds
- + MiningPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
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Comparable games
Airport CEO 2021 · $5.8M 
Tower! Simulator 3 2022 · $1.9M 
Fly Corp 2023 · $1.4M 
Global ATC Simulator 2014 · $120k 
Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR 2022 · EA · $109k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Airport CEO | older | $24.99 | 7,752 83% | 233k | $5.8M (exactly $5,811,674) | Apog Labs |
| | Tower! Simulator 3 | older | $59.99 | 1,047 67% | 31k | $1.9M (exactly $1,884,286) | FeelThere |
| | Fly Corp | older | $14.99 | 3,112 85% | 93k | $1.4M (exactly $1,399,466) | KishMish Games |
| | Global ATC Simulator | older | $29.99 | 133 62% | 4.0k | $120k (exactly $119,660) | Robert Miroszewski |
| | Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR | · EA older | $29.99 | 121 61% | 3.6k | $109k (exactly $108,864) | AVIAR B.V. |
 | I Fetch Rocks | $15.99 | 110 94% | 3.3k | $53k (exactly $52,767) | SarumXR | |
 | ATC Ground Point | $15.99 | 77 81% | 2.3k | $37k (exactly $36,937) | Blueon | |
 | Jetstream | older | $9.99 | 115 87% | 3.5k | $34k (exactly $34,466) | Clockwork Acorn |
 | World of Aircraft: Glider Simulator | older | $15.99 | 49 38% | 1.5k | $24k (exactly $23,505) | World of Aircraft Team |
 | StarbaseSim | · EA | $16.37 | 46 93% | 1.4k | $23k (exactly $22,591) | AshtorakSimGames |
 | Mayday Protocol | $7.99 | 21 71% | 630 | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) | Wazang Games | |
 | Rocket Engineer | · EA | $9.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Xavier B. |
 | ATC Flight Operator | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | FlagmanJeremy | |
 | Gravity Drop | $6.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Octopie Lab | |
 | Seema's Pogo | $0.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $386 (exactly $386) | Kazarma, Torpedo Moskau | |
 | Nick's Saturday Morning Games (NSMG) | · EA | $0.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $238 (exactly $238) | Croaking Kero |
 | Gorilla vs Yeti | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Riaan |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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