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Should I ship a Naval Flight game?
Flight + Naval
Only 7 developers shipped a Naval 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, FEBA Gunship R, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $270, ×0.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $800, ×1.3 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $269 (exactly $269) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $807 (exactly $807) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, 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
- $5.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 85,030 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Stormworks: Build and Rescue 2020 · $41M 
Transport Fever 2 2019 · $32M 
ICBM 2020 · $993k 
Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator 2016 · EA · $320k 
Battlestations: Midway 2007 · $180k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stormworks: Build and Rescue | older | $24.99 | 54,649 90% | 1.6M | $41M (exactly $40,970,355) | Geometa |
| | Transport Fever 2 | older | $39.99 | 26,714 89% | 801k | $32M (exactly $32,048,786) | Urban Games |
| | ICBM | older | $19.99 | 1,655 91% | 50k | $993k (exactly $992,503) | SoftWarWare, K-Project |
| | Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator | · EA older | $29.99 | 356 47% | 11k | $320k (exactly $320,293) | Sim155 Limited |
| | Battlestations: Midway | older | $6.99 | 860 78% | 26k | $180k (exactly $180,342) | Eidos Interactive |
 | Fleet Command | older | $9.99 | 459 88% | 14k | $138k (exactly $137,562) | Sonalysts |
 | Hydrofoil Generation | older | $19.99 | 103 84% | 3.1k | $62k (exactly $61,769) | Jaxx Vane Studio |
 | Dieselpunk Wars | older | $14.99 | 116 55% | 3.5k | $52k (exactly $52,165) | Image Power S.A., Roasted Games |
 | WarBirds 2026 | older | $19.99 | 61 45% | 1.8k | $37k (exactly $36,582) | iEntertainment Network Inc |
 | 1971: Indian Naval Front | older | $14.99 | 57 68% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | Neosphere Interactive Studios |
 | FEBA Gunship R | $2.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | rucsgames | |
 | The Great Ocean | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Actrio Studio | |
 | Airplane Flight Simulator : Combat Zone | $14.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Ovilex Software | |
 | Pirates of Gravitae | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Innerverse Games | |
 | Great Journey | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Rebelmind, North Wind | |
 | Chicken Battlefield | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | chickenbattlefielddevs | |
 | EscortMission | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | UnmanedSystem |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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