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Should I ship a Futuristic Open World Survival Craft?
Open World Survival Craft + Futuristic
Only 7 developers shipped a Futuristic Open World Survival Craft 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, Forever Skies, 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 9 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $50k, ×37 the market's $1.3k for a 9 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $11k; 1 in 20 cleared $7.3M, ×5436 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% | $11k (exactly $10,793) |
|---|---|
| Median | $50k (exactly $50,460) |
| Top 25% | $255k (exactly $255,027) |
| Top 5% | $7.3M (exactly $7,321,759) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Open World Survival Craft
- effort 9 / 10 · low · dedicated multiplayer servers over a huge content build
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Open World Survival Craft
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $12.99.
The top 10 games average 68% positive over 15,145 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $11k. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Open World Survival Craft with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + AutomationFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + MedievalPoor odds
- + ShooterPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
Comparable games
Forever Skies 2025 · $7.3M 
GRAV 2015 · EA · $2.7M 
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival 2023 · $484k 
QANGA 2024 · EA · $332k 
Heat Death: Survival Train 2024 · EA · $255k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Forever Skies | $29.99 | 8,138 78% | 244k | $7.3M (exactly $7,321,759) | Far From Home | |
| | GRAV | · EA older | $19.99 | 4,451 49% | 134k | $2.7M (exactly $2,669,265) | BitMonster, Inc. |
| | Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival | older | $19.99 | 807 69% | 24k | $484k (exactly $483,958) | Tbjbu2 |
| | QANGA | · EA older | $19.99 | 554 70% | 17k | $332k (exactly $332,234) | iolaCorp Studio |
| | Heat Death: Survival Train | · EA | $11.99 | 709 77% | 21k | $255k (exactly $255,027) | Mass Game Devs |
 | Kentum | $17.99 | 172 75% | 5.2k | $93k (exactly $92,828) | Tlön Industries | |
 | Utopia Colony | $16.99 | 99 63% | 3.0k | $50k (exactly $50,460) | GridSky Studios | |
 | PostCollapse | older | $7.99 | 127 56% | 3.8k | $30k (exactly $30,442) | Ambiera |
 | HardPunch: Sex Plague | older | $11.99 | 51 41% | 1.5k | $18k (exactly $18,345) | by Cassandra |
 | INTERASTRA: Planet Survival | · EA older | $13.99 | 37 51% | 1.1k | $16k (exactly $15,529) | T-Bull |
 | ExoTrain | · EA | $14.99 | 24 75% | 720 | $11k (exactly $10,793) | Harpoon Games |
 | Wreckborn | $6.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $4.6k (exactly $4,613) | Krystian Dobaczewski | |
 | Stellar Archipelago | $12.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gogodinosaur |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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