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Should I ship a Walking Simulator Flight game?
Flight + Walking Simulator
Only 13 developers shipped a Walking Simulator 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, Toroa: Skycall, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.1k, ×3.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $300; 1 in 20 cleared $14k, ×22 the market median. Revenue is up 1250% on the market; 24 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,067) |
| Top 5% | $14k (exactly $14,029) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 79 |
| Announced | 24 |
| 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 up 1250% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Walking Simulator
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight, Walking Simulator; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Exploration, Open World
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, Atmospheric, Emotional
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 300 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, 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
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bomb Rush Cyberfunk | older | $39.99 | 12,645 98% | 379k | $15M (exactly $15,170,206) | Team Reptile |
| | A Short Hike | older | $7.99 | 19,219 99% | 577k | $4.6M (exactly $4,606,794) | adamgryu |
| | Exo One | older | $16.99 | 5,053 89% | 152k | $2.6M (exactly $2,575,514) | Exbleative |
| | AER Memories of Old | older | $14.99 | 5,064 86% | 152k | $2.3M (exactly $2,277,281) | Forgotten Key |
| | Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip | older | $17.99 | 1,450 95% | 44k | $783k (exactly $782,565) | snekflat |
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 | InnerSpace | older | $19.99 | 173 63% | 5.2k | $104k (exactly $103,748) | PolyKnight Games |
 | Toroa: Skycall | $12.99 | 36 94% | 1.1k | $14k (exactly $14,029) | Atawhai Interactive | |
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 | ✈️Velocity Wings✈️ | $9.80 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.5k (exactly $3,528) | ZhiFeng Games | |
 | Red Panda: The Quiet Path | $8.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $2.4k (exactly $2,427) | Uberbax-Gaming | |
 | Nightmare Flight | $1.99 | 35 45% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) | Horrid Vision | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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