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Should I ship a Tanks Flight game?
Flight + Tanks
Only 9 developers shipped a Tanks 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, Vietnam War, 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: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 14 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) |
| Top 5% | $766k (exactly $766,289) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 flat on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, 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, Tanks
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $4.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 12,936 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad 2014 · $13M 
Vietnam War 2025 · EA · $766k 
Model Builder: Complete Edition 2022 · $634k 
Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator 2016 · EA · $320k 
Aircraft Evolution 2018 · $60k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad | older | $49.99 | 8,749 79% | 262k | $13M (exactly $13,120,875) | FOR-GAMES CR LTD |
| | Vietnam War | · EA | $14.99 | 1,704 84% | 51k | $766k (exactly $766,289) | Thorium Game Lab |
| | Model Builder: Complete Edition | older | $19.99 | 1,058 74% | 32k | $634k (exactly $634,483) | Moonlit S.A. |
| | Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator | · EA older | $29.99 | 356 47% | 11k | $320k (exactly $320,293) | Sim155 Limited |
| | Aircraft Evolution | older | $8.99 | 221 80% | 6.6k | $60k (exactly $59,604) | Satur Entertainment |
 | Dieselpunk Wars | older | $14.99 | 116 55% | 3.5k | $52k (exactly $52,165) | Image Power S.A., Roasted Games |
 | Furious Angels | older | $4.99 | 345 87% | 10k | $52k (exactly $51,646) | MorfeoDev |
 | Shrot | older | $6.99 | 109 89% | 3.3k | $23k (exactly $22,857) | Spytihněv |
 | Winter War 1939 | older | $4.99 | 145 88% | 4.4k | $22k (exactly $21,706) | Thorium Game Lab |
 | Sandbox World | older | $4.99 | 133 72% | 4.0k | $20k (exactly $19,910) | XMAKE |
 | Kamikaze Strike: FPV Drone | $5.99 | 48 83% | 1.4k | $8.6k (exactly $8,626) | Dinomore Games | |
 | Valor 1944 | $9.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Sunroom Games | |
 | FEBA Gunship R | $2.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | rucsgames | |
 | Hyper_Sea_5000 | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | tofeelpain | |
 | Turning The Tide | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Funky Monkey Games | |
 | NEONSKY | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | PlayG Studio | |
 | Vehicle Laboratory | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Coarse Bread Access | |
 | Canyon Raid | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Dad Does Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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