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Should I ship a Mech Flight game?
Flight + Mechs
Only 11 developers shipped a Mech 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, TOP DOG, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 29 more are announced, ×4.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $78k, ×126 the market median. Revenue is up 75% on the market; 29 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,169) |
| Top 25% | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) |
| Top 5% | $79k (exactly $78,821) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 29 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 75% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 85% positive over 332 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 29 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.8 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
Model Builder: Complete Edition 2022 · $634k 
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition 2017 · $312k 
War Tech Fighters 2018 · $137k 
Gearbits 2023 · $132k 
Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut 2014 · $109k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Model Builder: Complete Edition | older | $19.99 | 1,058 74% | 32k | $634k (exactly $634,483) | Moonlit S.A. |
| | Project Nimbus: Complete Edition | older | $6.99 | 1,490 84% | 45k | $312k (exactly $312,453) | GameCrafterTeam, GameTomo Co., Ltd. |
| | War Tech Fighters | older | $19.99 | 228 74% | 6.8k | $137k (exactly $136,732) | Drakkar Dev |
| | Gearbits | older | $9.99 | 442 96% | 13k | $132k (exactly $132,467) | Quackpond Games |
| | Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut | older | $9.99 | 363 82% | 11k | $109k (exactly $108,791) | Born Ready Games |
 | TOP DOG | $9.99 | 263 88% | 7.9k | $79k (exactly $78,821) | MorfeoDev | |
 | Furious Angels | older | $4.99 | 345 87% | 10k | $52k (exactly $51,646) | MorfeoDev |
 | Nimbus INFINITY | older | $14.99 | 112 50% | 3.4k | $50k (exactly $50,366) | GameCrafterTeam, GameTomo Co., Ltd. |
 | Strike Suit Infinity | older | $2.99 | 521 82% | 16k | $47k (exactly $46,734) | Born Ready Games Ltd. |
 | Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition | older | $2.99 | 494 75% | 15k | $44k (exactly $44,312) | Scott Host |
 | WarOS | · EA | $19.99 | 29 72% | 870 | $17k (exactly $17,391) | The7 Studio |
 | Wings of Aviora | · EA | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Stormy XP |
 | WARHEAD CIRCUS（ウォーヘッド サーカス） | $8.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Dig Up Indie | |
 | The Giant Crab in Space | $7.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | TensionSplice | |
 | Blast Horizon | $12.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.2k (exactly $1,169) | Gil Zussman | |
 | FEBA Gunship R | $2.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | rucsgames | |
 | Attack on Steel | $3.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | Filet Studio | |
 | AeroSpace Engineering | Sandbox | $1.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | MasterBuild | |
 | E.L.D. TD | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 4develhope di Benini Elisa |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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