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Should I ship a Parkour Flight game?
Flight + Parkour
Only 19 developers shipped a Parkour 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, ACRODRIFT: FPV Drone Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $30 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 18 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $30 (exactly $30) |
| Top 25% | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 5% | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 67 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 10% fewer 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.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight, Parkour; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry 3D Platformer, Platformer, Adventure
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.80 or above
- Art
- 7 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Atmospheric, Third Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.80 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 59 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 14 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, 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
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk 2023 · $15M 
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing 2018 · $8.2M 
Superflight 2017 · $991k 
LEAP 2023 · $98k 
City Zoomer 2021 · $24k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bomb Rush Cyberfunk | older | $39.99 | 12,645 98% | 379k | $15M (exactly $15,170,206) | Team Reptile |
| | Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing | older | $19.99 | 13,633 95% | 409k | $8.2M (exactly $8,175,710) | LuGus Studios |
| | Superflight | older | $2.99 | 11,047 96% | 331k | $991k (exactly $990,916) | GrizzlyGames |
| | LEAP | older | $14.99 | 219 52% | 6.6k | $98k (exactly $98,484) | Blue Isle Studios |
| | City Zoomer | older | $4.99 | 160 93% | 4.8k | $24k (exactly $23,952) | Planet Renox |
 | Rocket Skates VR | older | $9.99 | 53 81% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $15,884) | EpiXR Games UG |
 | Lightfield HYPER Edition | older | $14.99 | 33 81% | 990 | $15k (exactly $14,840) | Lost in the Garden |
 | SINGULARIUM | older | $9.99 | 41 75% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $12,288) | NivMiz |
 | Wolf and Pigs | older | $16.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $9.2k (exactly $9,175) | Visual Light |
 | ACRODRIFT: FPV Drone Simulator | · EA | $14.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Dueking Studio |
 | DVR Simulator | older | $14.99 | 14 42% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Demonixis Games |
 | ✈️Velocity Wings✈️ | $9.80 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.5k (exactly $3,528) | ZhiFeng Games | |
 | Way of the Dragons | · EA | $4.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Said Yavuz |
 | Vector Horizon | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Solara | |
 | Isles Above | · EA | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | UVW Game Studio |
 | Air Master HANEMARU | $3.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | SE.EED CO.,LTD | |
 | ZipRush: Surf the Void | · EA | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Narriflux |
 | LAW 56 | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Willow Studios | |
 | Sync Together | $0.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $238 (exactly $238) | DarkRook Interactive | |
 | Reach the top | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Stefan Videv |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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