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Should I ship a WWI Flight game?
Flight + World War I
Only 7 developers shipped a WWI 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, Aces of Thunder, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $1.0M, ×1660 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,699) |
| Top 5% | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,752) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $15.99 |
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 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- World War I
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight
- Price point
- $15.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 3,941 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 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
Aces of Thunder 2026 · $1.0M 
Model Builder: Complete Edition 2022 · $634k 
Warplanes: WW1 Fighters 2021 · $242k 
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol 2013 · $60k 
Aircraft Evolution 2018 · $60k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Aces of Thunder | $29.99 | 1,159 57% | 35k | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,752) | Gaijin Entertainment | |
| | Model Builder: Complete Edition | older | $19.99 | 1,058 74% | 32k | $634k (exactly $634,483) | Moonlit S.A. |
| | Warplanes: WW1 Fighters | older | $19.99 | 403 88% | 12k | $242k (exactly $241,679) | Home Net Games |
| | Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol | older | $4.99 | 403 72% | 12k | $60k (exactly $60,329) | Firaxis Games |
| | Aircraft Evolution | older | $8.99 | 221 80% | 6.6k | $60k (exactly $59,604) | Satur Entertainment |
 | Air Conflicts: Secret Wars | older | $5.99 | 301 74% | 9.0k | $54k (exactly $54,090) | Games Farm, 3Division |
 | Skies above the Great War | older | $11.99 | 140 75% | 4.2k | $50k (exactly $50,358) | Puntigames |
 | Wings of Glory | older | $14.99 | 92 80% | 2.8k | $41k (exactly $41,372) | Dire Wolf |
 | Red Baron Pack | older | $9.99 | 120 80% | 3.6k | $36k (exactly $35,964) | Mad Otter Games |
 | Red Wings: American Aces | older | $11.99 | 44 70% | 1.3k | $16k (exactly $15,827) | All in! Games |
 | Real RC: Flight Simulator Aircraft Remote Control 2026 | $29.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $2.7k (exactly $2,699) | Thetis Games | |
 | Wings Of Rage | $15.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Cyrille Fontaine | |
 | Flying Aces: Legend of the Red Baron | $19.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | GS2 Games | |
 | Furball Over the Front | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Page Blue House | |
 | Sky Scramble | $5.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | SpunjLabs | |
 | Aerial Lockdown | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | DryLight Games UF | |
 | Soviet Tide Arising! | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Page Blue House |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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