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Should I ship a Management Naval Combat game?
Naval Combat + Management
Only 10 developers shipped a Management Naval Combat 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, Task Force Admiral - Vol.1: American Carrier Battles, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×5.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $8.5k, ×14 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $3.0k; 1 in 20 cleared $750k, ×1209 the market median. Revenue is flat on the market; 33 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $3.0k (exactly $2,998) |
|---|---|
| Median | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) |
| Top 25% | $54k (exactly $53,514) |
| Top 5% | $759k (exactly $759,410) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 flat on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Naval Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Management
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Naval Combat, Management
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 968 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.0k. 33 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Naval Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + RTSPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
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Comparable games
UBOAT 2024 · $23M 
Sailing Era 2023 · $3.4M 
Frozenheim 2022 · $2.1M 
Port Royale 4 2020 · $1.7M 
Rule the Waves 3 2023 · $1.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | UBOAT | older | $29.99 | 25,568 83% | 767k | $23M (exactly $23,003,530) | Deep Water Studio |
| | Sailing Era | older | $24.99 | 4,565 78% | 137k | $3.4M (exactly $3,422,380) | GY Games |
| | Frozenheim | older | $19.99 | 3,463 70% | 104k | $2.1M (exactly $2,076,761) | Paranoid Interactive |
| | Port Royale 4 | older | $39.99 | 1,405 56% | 42k | $1.7M (exactly $1,685,578) | Gaming Minds |
| | Rule the Waves 3 | older | $39.99 | 855 87% | 26k | $1.0M (exactly $1,025,744) | Naval Warfare Simulations |
 | Task Force Admiral - Vol.1: American Carrier Battles | · EA | $39.99 | 633 87% | 19k | $759k (exactly $759,410) | Drydock Dreams Games |
 | Aircraft Carrier Survival | older | $19.99 | 1,176 59% | 35k | $705k (exactly $705,247) | Gambit Games Studio |
 | 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far | older | $19.99 | 944 80% | 28k | $566k (exactly $566,117) | Petroglyph |
 | Port Royale 3 | older | $14.99 | 1,204 72% | 36k | $541k (exactly $541,439) | Gaming Minds Studios |
 | Boat Crew | · EA older | $24.99 | 431 89% | 13k | $323k (exactly $323,121) | Tabbing Tabby |
 | Victory at Sea Atlantic - World War II Naval Warfare | $39.99 | 92 60% | 2.8k | $110k (exactly $110,372) | Evil Twin Artworks | |
 | Corsairs - Battle of the Caribbean | $14.99 | 119 33% | 3.6k | $54k (exactly $53,514) | Fishing Cactus | |
 | Harpoon Classic '97 | $8.99 | 61 83% | 1.8k | $16k (exactly $16,452) | Alliance Interactive | |
 | Storm Seas | · EA | $14.99 | 19 52% | 570 | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) | Dclares Dev |
 | FuJianStrike | $6.99 | 22 100% | 660 | $4.6k (exactly $4,613) | Mithril_055 | |
 | Watchstander: Surface Warfare Officer Training Simulator | · EA | $19.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $3.0k (exactly $2,998) | Enclave Gaming |
 | Mech and Tech 1 | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | colmer_it UG | |
 | Idle Space Shooter | $1.99 | 13 30% | 390 | $776 (exactly $776) | Phantom Prophecy Games | |
 | Tales of Arcrath | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Codex Games USA |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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