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Should I ship a Futuristic Tabletop game?
Tabletop + Futuristic
Of 29 developers who shipped a Futuristic Tabletop game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 47 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $230, ×0.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 47 games are announced against 18 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper, while revenue is down 85% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $225 (exactly $225) |
| Top 25% | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) |
| Top 5% | $43k (exactly $43,483) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 29 |
| Released games | 86 |
| Announced | 47 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 50% more 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.
- Tabletop
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Tabletop; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Board Game, Action
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 2,628 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 17 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 47 games are announced against 18 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Citizen Sleeper 2022 · $5.0M 
Dune: Imperium 2024 · $2.6M 
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector 2025 · $1.8M 
The Solitaire Conspiracy 2020 · $267k 
Gaia Project 2021 · $263k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Citizen Sleeper | older | $19.99 | 8,271 92% | 248k | $5.0M (exactly $4,960,119) | Jump Over The Age |
| | Dune: Imperium | older | $22.99 | 3,806 94% | 114k | $2.6M (exactly $2,624,998) | Dire Wolf |
| | Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector | $24.99 | 2,358 91% | 71k | $1.8M (exactly $1,767,793) | Jump Over The Age | |
| | The Solitaire Conspiracy | older | $11.99 | 742 89% | 22k | $267k (exactly $266,897) | Bithell Games |
| | Gaia Project | older | $24.99 | 351 80% | 11k | $263k (exactly $263,145) | DIGIDICED |
 | System Crash | older | $14.99 | 250 83% | 7.5k | $112k (exactly $112,425) | Rogue Moon Studios |
 | One-inch Tactics | older | $19.99 | 88 94% | 2.6k | $53k (exactly $52,774) | KOGADO STUDIO |
 | Amberspire | $24.99 | 58 86% | 1.7k | $43k (exactly $43,483) | Lunar Division | |
 | Burger Bots Inc. | $7.99 | 109 91% | 3.3k | $26k (exactly $26,127) | Normogames | |
 | Powerful Courses | older | $14.99 | 49 100% | 1.5k | $22k (exactly $22,035) | Serhii Khramov, Dmytro Pohrebnyi, Illia… (Serhii Khramov, Dmytro Pohrebnyi, Illia Ustenko, Davyd Moskalenko) |
 | High Frontier 4 All | $19.99 | 17 17% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | Johan Brandt, Stewart Wan, Erik Lund, N… (Johan Brandt, Stewart Wan, Erik Lund, Nicolas Mondino, Theo Sandén, Leonard Wahlund, Alexander Wahrenstedt, Carl Nordholm, Erico Pizarro Gutierrez, Natdanai Puthom, Olivia Bernardsson, Dag Petersen, Sam Abou-Gabal, Pablo Schmidt, Spilios Kehagias, Aphiwit Lekphet, Zongying Liu, Markus Vikmanis, Kamila Kuzmiuk, Edvin Skogsholm Sanne, Janina Carvajal Ibacache, Adam Kallberg, Ricky Truong, Carl Forden, Robin Christopher Öhman Tejre, Malte Gundhus, Mathias Novakovic, Christopher Vedlund, Ivo Öjhage, Benjamin Grissom, Linus Granskog) | |
 | Bullet: Surge | $15.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $8.6k (exactly $8,635) | Cerbere Games | |
 | TurnBreak | · EA | $7.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $4.8k (exactly $4,794) | Dapper Dog Digital |
 | Manacaster | · EA | $24.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $3.7k (exactly $3,748) | Manacaster Games |
 | Vox Populi: USA 2024 | $7.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Velsin | |
 | Sente | $7.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | Oxobox Games Studios | |
 | Pioneers of the Unknown | $4.99 | 17 52% | 510 | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) | Rainbow Duck Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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