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Should I ship a Steampunk Flight game?
Flight + Steampunk
Only 7 developers shipped a Steampunk 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.. 14 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.0k, ×9.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $270; 1 in 20 cleared $78k, ×125 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) |
| Top 25% | $20k (exactly $19,780) |
| Top 5% | $78k (exactly $78,213) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 14 |
| 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 500% 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.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight
- 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 9,936 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 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
Guns of Icarus Online 2012 · $1.2M 
Airmen 2017 · $142k 
Guns of Icarus Alliance 2017 · $90k 
Airships: Lost Flotilla 2025 · $78k 
AIRHEART - Tales of broken Wings 2018 · $58k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Guns of Icarus Online | older | $4.99 | 8,245 91% | 247k | $1.2M (exactly $1,234,276) | Muse Games |
| | Airmen | older | $14.99 | 315 76% | 9.5k | $142k (exactly $141,656) | Airborne Games |
| | Guns of Icarus Alliance | older | $4.99 | 599 81% | 18k | $90k (exactly $89,670) | Muse Games |
| | Airships: Lost Flotilla | $8.99 | 290 92% | 8.7k | $78k (exactly $78,213) | David Stark | |
| | AIRHEART - Tales of broken Wings | older | $14.99 | 128 81% | 3.8k | $58k (exactly $57,562) | Blindflug Studios AG |
 | Dieselpunk Wars | older | $14.99 | 116 55% | 3.5k | $52k (exactly $52,165) | Image Power S.A., Roasted Games |
 | SpaceKraft! | older | $11.99 | 62 85% | 1.9k | $22k (exactly $22,301) | Game Dev Garage |
 | Sea Walker Saga | · EA | $9.99 | 66 93% | 2.0k | $20k (exactly $19,780) | Antelus Games |
 | HEXSTORM: Tears of Arcadia | $8.99 | 56 75% | 1.7k | $15k (exactly $15,103) | Tearevo | |
 | Tragedy of Prince Rupert | older | $3.99 | 59 89% | 1.8k | $7.1k (exactly $7,062) | Spytihněv |
 | Wings of Aviora | · EA | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Stormy XP |
 | Pirates of Gravitae | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Innerverse Games | |
 | Lockstone Mountains | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Waesome Games | |
 | Gravity Matters | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nixiesoft LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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