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Should I ship a Post-apocalyptic Flight game?
Flight + Post-apocalyptic
Only 5 developers shipped a Post-apocalyptic 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, FPV Labs - Drone Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×11 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.8k against a market of $630. 33 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) |
| Top 25% | $6.0k (exactly $5,997) |
| Top 5% | $62k (exactly $62,369) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Post-apocalyptic
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $9.99.
The top 10 games average 59% positive over 1,392 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 33 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×11 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
CYGNI: All Guns Blazing 2024 · $403k 
LEAP 2023 · $98k 
Raiden Legacy - Steam Edition 2015 · $78k 
FPV Labs - Drone Simulator 2026 · EA · $62k 
Urlaubsflug Simulator – Holiday Flight Simulator 2017 · $53k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | CYGNI: All Guns Blazing | older | $29.99 | 448 60% | 13k | $403k (exactly $403,066) | KeelWorks |
| | LEAP | older | $14.99 | 219 52% | 6.6k | $98k (exactly $98,484) | Blue Isle Studios |
| | Raiden Legacy - Steam Edition | older | $9.99 | 259 54% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | Dotemu |
| | FPV Labs - Drone Simulator | · EA | $19.99 | 104 67% | 3.1k | $62k (exactly $62,369) | FPVLabs |
| | Urlaubsflug Simulator – Holiday Flight Simulator | older | $14.99 | 117 58% | 3.5k | $53k (exactly $52,615) | Caipirinha Games |
 | Nimbus INFINITY | older | $14.99 | 112 50% | 3.4k | $50k (exactly $50,366) | GameCrafterTeam, GameTomo Co., Ltd. |
 | Avium | older | $29.99 | 26 76% | 780 | $23k (exactly $23,392) | The Robot |
 | Tex Murphy: Mean Streets | older | $5.99 | 69 75% | 2.1k | $12k (exactly $12,399) | Access Software |
 | Rainy City: Pandemic | older | $7.99 | 28 75% | 840 | $6.7k (exactly $6,712) | LunaBeat |
 | Soar: Pillars of Tasneem | $19.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $6.0k (exactly $5,997) | Kimchi Corp | |
 | BattleshipCrafting | $5.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | 洛米条 | |
 | Flying Universe | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Gold Orange Studio | |
 | Final Eden | $2.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | X-Seed Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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