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Should I ship a Robot Logic game?
Logic + Robots
Of 76 developers who shipped a Robot Logic 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.. 84 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $200k, ×325 the market median. Revenue is up 1160% on the market; 84 games are announced against 39 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $5.3k (exactly $5,313) |
| Top 5% | $204k (exactly $204,007) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 76 |
| Released games | 215 |
| Announced | 84 |
| 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 up 1160% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Logic; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Puzzle, Adventure, Strategy
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 3D, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 7,324 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 44 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 84 games are announced against 39 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Logic with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Bullet TimeFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + TransportationFair
- + Automobile SimFair
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Comparable games
Mars First Logistics 2025 · $2.1M 
The Talos Principle: Reawakened 2025 · $1.3M 
Good Company 2022 · $1.1M 
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor 2020 · $1.1M 
Main Assembly 2021 · $602k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mars First Logistics | $19.99 | 3,497 94% | 105k | $2.1M (exactly $2,097,151) | Shape Shop | |
| | The Talos Principle: Reawakened | $39.99 | 1,085 90% | 33k | $1.3M (exactly $1,301,674) | Croteam | |
| | Good Company | older | $24.99 | 1,480 73% | 44k | $1.1M (exactly $1,109,556) | Chasing Carrots |
| | Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor | older | $19.99 | 1,758 78% | 53k | $1.1M (exactly $1,054,273) | Stray Fawn Studio |
| | Main Assembly | older | $19.99 | 1,004 83% | 30k | $602k (exactly $602,099) | Bad Yolk Games |
 | Nucleares | older | $14.99 | 1,121 84% | 34k | $504k (exactly $504,114) | Iván Marcelo Pretti |
 | Mind Over Magnet | $9.99 | 1,344 89% | 40k | $403k (exactly $402,797) | Game Maker's Toolkit | |
 | The Signal State | older | $19.99 | 649 86% | 19k | $389k (exactly $389,205) | Reckoner Industries |
 | GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena | older | $14.99 | 846 87% | 25k | $380k (exactly $380,446) | GFX47 |
 | ACTION SANDBOX | older | $9.99 | 787 73% | 24k | $236k (exactly $235,864) | Vona Soft |
 | JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator | $17.99 | 378 76% | 11k | $204k (exactly $204,007) | Prof. Scherer | |
 | Net.Attack() - Code or Die! | $7.99 | 510 80% | 15k | $122k (exactly $122,247) | ByteRockers' Games | |
 | Tech Blast | $39.99 | 90 92% | 2.7k | $108k (exactly $107,973) | Galactic Geckon | |
 | Unusual and not safe experiments | $29.99 | 86 89% | 2.6k | $77k (exactly $77,374) | Galactic Geckon | |
 | Robot Detour | $5.99 | 174 100% | 5.2k | $31k (exactly $31,268) | Nozomu Games | |
 | Bytebond | $11.99 | 73 89% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $26,258) | DVD Unicorns | |
 | Electrogical | $7.99 | 87 93% | 2.6k | $21k (exactly $20,854) | kinjo |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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