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Should I ship a Point & Click Flight game?
Flight + Point & Click
Only 12 developers shipped a Point & Click 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, Approximately Up, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 8 developers shipped in the last year and 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $238 (exactly $238) |
| Top 25% | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) |
| Top 5% | $746k (exactly $745,952) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight, Point & Click
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 89% positive over 1,272 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Approximately Up 2026 · $746k 
Mini Airways - ATC simulator 2024 · $401k 
Airline Tycoon Deluxe 2014 · $182k 
Nothing To Declare 2026 · $70k 
Mare 2022 · $23k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Approximately Up | $24.99 | 995 93% | 30k | $746k (exactly $745,952) | Approximately Games | |
| | Mini Airways - ATC simulator | older | $9.99 | 1,339 92% | 40k | $401k (exactly $401,298) | CCC Games, Erabit |
| | Airline Tycoon Deluxe | older | $9.99 | 606 84% | 18k | $182k (exactly $181,618) | Spellbound |
| | Nothing To Declare | $9.99 | 234 76% | 7.0k | $70k (exactly $70,130) | Rogue Duck Interactive | |
| | Mare | older | $19.99 | 39 79% | 1.2k | $23k (exactly $23,388) | Lonekite Games |
 | Argonauts Agency: Golden Fleece | older | $14.99 | 43 88% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $19,337) | Workroom7 |
 | Tales of Cosmos | older | $14.99 | 34 79% | 1.0k | $15k (exactly $15,290) | Red Dwarf Games |
 | Tex Murphy: Mean Streets | older | $5.99 | 69 75% | 2.1k | $12k (exactly $12,399) | Access Software |
 | SEARCH ALL - CATS | older | $2.99 | 135 85% | 4.1k | $12k (exactly $12,110) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Copter and Sky | older | $6.99 | 55 61% | 1.7k | $12k (exactly $11,534) | Fly Dream Dev |
 | Airport Mania: First Flight | $9.99 | 19 94% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | Reflexive, South Winds Games, Evergreen… (Reflexive, South Winds Games, Evergreen Games LLC) | |
 | Simple Airline Sim | $7.99 | 8 0% | 240 | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) | zedzag | |
 | Air Traffic Control | $12.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Urban Isotope | |
 | Distance | $0.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $238 (exactly $238) | Blue Fire Mugs | |
 | Terra Dice | $0.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $208 (exactly $208) | HawaGames | |
 | Great Journey | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Rebelmind, North Wind | |
 | Bird Cage | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Triverske | |
 | Riders | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DC2S |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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