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Should I ship a Mars Procedural Generation game?
Procedural Generation + Mars
Only 7 developers shipped a Mars Procedural Generation 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, Mars First Logistics, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 5 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.2k against a market of $630. 5 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $898 (exactly $898) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 25% | $1.7M (exactly $1,691,422) |
| Top 5% | $2.1M (exactly $2,097,151) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 5 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 100% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Mars
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Procedural Generation
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 11,419 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 5 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Procedural Generation with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SnowFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + DetectiveFair
- + Word GameFair
- + TypingFair
- + IdlerFair
- + LogicFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + TrainsPoor odds
Comparable games
Mars First Logistics 2025 · $2.1M 
Terraformers 2023 · $1.8M 
Plan B: Terraform 2025 · $1.7M 
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder 2025 · $268k 
Farlanders 2023 · $229k | 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 | |
| | Terraformers | older | $19.99 | 3,031 88% | 91k | $1.8M (exactly $1,817,691) | Asteroid Lab |
| | Plan B: Terraform | $15.99 | 3,526 91% | 106k | $1.7M (exactly $1,691,422) | Gaddy Games | |
| | Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder | $11.99 | 744 69% | 22k | $268k (exactly $267,617) | Tinymice Entertainment | |
| | Farlanders | older | $14.99 | 510 89% | 15k | $229k (exactly $229,347) | Andrii Bychkovskyi |
 | Mars Base | older | $19.99 | 37 51% | 1.1k | $22k (exactly $22,189) | Khuong Le |
 | Above Earth | · EA older | $17.99 | 39 71% | 1.2k | $21k (exactly $21,048) | Steven Eric Boyette |
 | Outer Space Shack | older | $24.99 | 13 38% | 390 | $9.7k (exactly $9,746) | Open Lowcode SAS |
 | MechNest | older | $15.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $6.7k (exactly $6,716) | PoisonGames |
 | T. B. P. | older | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Terraspace | $7.99 | 5 20% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Black Apple | |
 | IRONBORNE | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Tres Interactive | |
 | Bryan's Indie Collection | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Bryan Veres | |
 | Funorbit | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Aeroenix |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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