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Should I ship a Psychological-Horror Flight game?
Flight + Psychological Horror
Only 10 developers shipped a Psychological-Horror 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, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, 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, ×5.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.7k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $1.3k (exactly $1,336) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.7k (exactly $2,722) |
| Top 25% | $8.6k (exactly $8,626) |
| Top 5% | $45M (exactly $45,422,810) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Psychological Horror
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 60% positive over 22,253 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.4k. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 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
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 2024 · $45M 
FPV Kamikaze Drone 2023 · EA · $2.2M 
Flyout 2023 · EA · $1.3M 
Airplane Mode 2020 · $128k 
Global ATC Simulator 2014 · $120k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | $69.99 | 21,633 59% | 649k | $45M (exactly $45,422,810) | Asobo Studio | |
| | FPV Kamikaze Drone | · EA older | $5.99 | 12,192 86% | 366k | $2.2M (exactly $2,190,902) | HFM Games |
| | Flyout | · EA older | $19.99 | 2,137 83% | 64k | $1.3M (exactly $1,281,559) | Stonext Games |
| | Airplane Mode | older | $11.99 | 355 67% | 11k | $128k (exactly $127,694) | Bacronym |
| | Global ATC Simulator | older | $29.99 | 133 62% | 4.0k | $120k (exactly $119,660) | Robert Miroszewski |
 | Sora | older | $8.99 | 384 94% | 12k | $104k (exactly $103,565) | Orange_Juice |
 | Fly Simulator | older | $2.99 | 629 64% | 19k | $56k (exactly $56,421) | HFM Games |
 | BEHEMOTH | $3.99 | 412 88% | 12k | $49k (exactly $49,316) | The Behemoth | |
 | Go For Launch: Mercury | older | $9.99 | 59 81% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,682) | Joe Chisholm |
 | Lunar Lander Beyond | older | $29.99 | 14 42% | 420 | $13k (exactly $12,596) | Dreams Uncorporated |
 | Kamikaze Strike: FPV Drone | $5.99 | 48 83% | 1.4k | $8.6k (exactly $8,626) | Dinomore Games | |
 | Unlucky Chicken | $2.98 | 52 90% | 1.6k | $4.6k (exactly $4,649) | Kayla.Z | |
 | Drones of War: FPV Drone Simulator | · EA | $3.49 | 26 61% | 780 | $2.7k (exactly $2,722) | Loren |
 | Nightmare Flight | $1.99 | 35 45% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) | Horrid Vision | |
 | A Butterfly | $0.99 | 45 97% | 1.4k | $1.3k (exactly $1,336) | alienmelon | |
 | Bird Like | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | SoftPower | |
 | Clumsy Rocketship | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Cosmic Pew Pew | |
 | A Bad Space Game | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | tobi02b |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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