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Should I ship a Logic Transportation game?
Transportation + Logic
Of 29 developers who shipped a Logic Transportation 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.. 30 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.7k, ×2.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $900. Revenue is up 235% on the market; 30 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $898 (exactly $898) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $11,988) |
| Top 5% | $2.1M (exactly $2,097,151) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 29 |
| Released games | 63 |
| Announced | 30 |
| 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 up 235% on the market, supply 90% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Transportation
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Logic
- effort 2 / 10 · high · deductive rules and grids
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Transportation, Logic; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Puzzle, Strategy
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 19,195 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 7 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Transportation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + PvPFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + RacingFair
- + Action-AdventureFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Level EditorPoor odds
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
Comparable games
shapez 2 - Factory 2026 · $12M 
Airport CEO 2021 · $5.8M 
City Bus Manager 2024 · $2.2M 
Mars First Logistics 2025 · $2.1M 
Tower! Simulator 3 2022 · $1.9M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | shapez 2 - Factory | $29.99 | 13,846 96% | 415k | $12M (exactly $12,457,246) | tobspr Games | |
| | Airport CEO | older | $24.99 | 7,752 83% | 233k | $5.8M (exactly $5,811,674) | Apog Labs |
| | City Bus Manager | older | $29.99 | 2,405 90% | 72k | $2.2M (exactly $2,163,778) | PeDePe GbR |
| | Mars First Logistics | $19.99 | 3,497 94% | 105k | $2.1M (exactly $2,097,151) | Shape Shop | |
| | Tower! Simulator 3 | older | $59.99 | 1,047 67% | 31k | $1.9M (exactly $1,884,286) | FeelThere |
 | Fly Corp | older | $14.99 | 3,112 85% | 93k | $1.4M (exactly $1,399,466) | KishMish Games |
 | 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) | |
 | Worldwide Rush | $19.99 | 559 77% | 17k | $335k (exactly $335,232) | Memel Games | |
 | Delivery INC | older | $14.99 | 257 71% | 7.7k | $116k (exactly $115,573) | DIGIFOX |
 | GRIDROAD | $9.99 | 385 82% | 12k | $115k (exactly $115,384) | RAJACORP | |
 | Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation | $9.99 | 329 76% | 9.9k | $99k (exactly $98,601) | Andrii Bychkovskyi | |
 | ATC Ground Point | $15.99 | 77 81% | 2.3k | $37k (exactly $36,937) | Blueon | |
 | Parking in Tight Spaces | $9.99 | 40 77% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,988) | Hungry Devs | |
 | 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 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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