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Should I ship a Train Logic game?
Logic + Trains
Only 19 developers shipped a Train Logic 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, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.1k, ×5.0 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.5k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.6M, ×2675 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 19 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) |
| Top 25% | $16k (exactly $15,978) |
| Top 5% | $1.7M (exactly $1,679,740) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 90% on the market, supply 135% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, 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; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Automation, Building, Sandbox
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $39.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Cozy, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 2,817 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 6 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure 2025 · $1.7M 
Railbound 2022 · $708k 
Subway Builder 2026 · $473k 
How 2 Escape 2023 · $267k 
Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation 2025 · $99k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure | $29.99 | 1,867 82% | 56k | $1.7M (exactly $1,679,740) | Massive Miniteam | |
| | Railbound | older | $12.99 | 1,818 94% | 55k | $708k (exactly $708,475) | Afterburn |
| | Subway Builder | $39.99 | 394 59% | 12k | $473k (exactly $472,682) | Colin Miller, EJ Fox, Curran Kelleher,… (Colin Miller, EJ Fox, Curran Kelleher, Nate Maue, Alex Wohlbruck, Piero Maddaleni, Brooks Flannery) | |
| | How 2 Escape | older | $12.99 | 684 71% | 21k | $267k (exactly $266,555) | Breakfirst Games |
| | Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation | $9.99 | 329 76% | 9.9k | $99k (exactly $98,601) | Andrii Bychkovskyi | |
 | Train World | older | $34.99 | 85 75% | 2.6k | $89k (exactly $89,224) | Turn Point Games |
 | Train Yard Builder | older | $19.99 | 100 71% | 3.0k | $60k (exactly $59,970) | GameFormatic S.A. |
 | Spooky Express | $14.99 | 80 98% | 2.4k | $36k (exactly $35,976) | Draknek and Friends | |
 | Railway Islands - Puzzle | older | $3.99 | 230 94% | 6.9k | $28k (exactly $27,531) | Rising Moon Games |
 | Railroad Ink Challenge | older | $7.99 | 88 82% | 2.6k | $21k (exactly $21,094) | Horrible Guild |
 | Mysteries of Old Tokyo | $12.99 | 41 100% | 1.2k | $16k (exactly $15,978) | Bolerosoft | |
 | Stoplights | $8.99 | 39 89% | 1.2k | $11k (exactly $10,518) | Wicked Blobfish | |
 | Trackastrophe! | $8.99 | 29 100% | 870 | $7.8k (exactly $7,821) | Kinoko Studio | |
 | Railway Dispatcher | $12.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | たでぃまる | |
 | Metro Architect | · EA | $9.90 | 11 54% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,267) | Northern21 Studio |
 | Golden Rails: The heart of the state | $6.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) | Alawar Casual |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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