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Should I ship a Naval Combat Flight game?
Flight + Naval Combat
Only 8 developers shipped a Naval Combat 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, Airships: Lost Flotilla, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $19k (exactly $18,581) |
| Top 5% | $78k (exactly $78,213) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Naval Combat
- 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, Naval Combat
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $8.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 71,490 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
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Comparable games
Besiege 2020 · $22M 
VTOL VR 2017 · $18M 
ICBM 2020 · $993k 
Battlestations: Midway 2007 · $180k 
Fleet Command 2006 · $138k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Besiege | older | $14.99 | 48,045 95% | 1.4M | $22M (exactly $21,605,836) | Spiderling Studios |
| | VTOL VR | older | $29.99 | 19,885 98% | 597k | $18M (exactly $17,890,534) | Boundless Dynamics, LLC |
| | ICBM | older | $19.99 | 1,655 91% | 50k | $993k (exactly $992,503) | SoftWarWare, K-Project |
| | 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 |
 | Airships: Lost Flotilla | $8.99 | 290 92% | 8.7k | $78k (exactly $78,213) | David Stark | |
 | 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 |
 | Catharage | $9.99 | 62 82% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $18,581) | Björn Michalski | |
 | A-Spec First Assault | $14.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Digitum Software | |
 | Fantasy Air-Sea Battles Showdown | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | WANG WENJIE | |
 | Lockstone Mountains | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Waesome Games | |
 | Turning The Tide | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Funky Monkey Games | |
 | Salvager | · EA | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Fox and Hollow Studios |
 | NectorX | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gergenia |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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