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Should I ship a Futuristic God Game?
God Game + Futuristic
Only 15 developers shipped a Futuristic God 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, Inquisitor’s Heart and Soul, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.1k, ×1.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $480; 1 in 20 cleared $240k, ×394 the market median. Revenue is down 60% on the market; 23 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $479 (exactly $479) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
| Top 25% | $9.7k (exactly $9,742) |
| Top 5% | $247k (exactly $247,460) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 down 60% on the market, supply 65% 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.
- God Game
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- God Game; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Building, City Builder
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,933 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
God Game with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + HistoricalFair
- + EconomyFair
- + PuzzleFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + DestructionFair
- + DystopianFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Farming SimLong shot
- + AgricultureLong shot
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
GolfTopia 2021 · $286k 
Inquisitor’s Heart and Soul 2025 · $247k 
FEED THE AI 2026 · $100k 
Technotopia 2024 · $90k 
Vilmonic 2018 · $31k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | GolfTopia | older | $19.99 | 477 95% | 14k | $286k (exactly $286,057) | MinMax Games Ltd. |
| | Inquisitor’s Heart and Soul | $12.99 | 635 80% | 19k | $247k (exactly $247,460) | Whale Rock Games | |
| | FEED THE AI | $5.99 | 557 90% | 17k | $100k (exactly $100,093) | Weird Kid Games | |
| | Technotopia | $4.99 | 599 86% | 18k | $90k (exactly $89,670) | Yustas | |
| | Vilmonic | older | $14.99 | 69 69% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,029) | Bludgeonsoft |
 | Heliopedia | older | $4.99 | 199 86% | 6.0k | $30k (exactly $29,790) | Sokpop Collective |
 | Trappist | older | $14.99 | 63 88% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,331) | Sirrah |
 | soul Interface | · EA | $12.99 | 25 76% | 750 | $9.7k (exactly $9,742) | soulless technologies |
 | Anthropomachy | older | $6.99 | 44 52% | 1.3k | $9.2k (exactly $9,227) | Toy Box Lab |
 | Galactic Simulator2: Stargate | $5.99 | 42 78% | 1.3k | $7.5k (exactly $7,547) | PcZ Games | |
 | ORACLE: Humanity, Automated | · EA | $9.99 | 18 44% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | ZANKYO GAMES |
 | The Big Number | $3.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | vacp | |
 | Stellar Industrialist | $2.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) | PcZ Games | |
 | Fill Multicolor | $5.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | Alexis Clemente | |
 | My Little Cosmos | $1.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | PcZ Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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