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Should I ship a Medieval Naval Combat game?
Naval Combat + Medieval
Only 8 developers shipped a Medieval 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, Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $17k, ×28 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $960; 1 in 20 cleared $150k, ×249 the market median. Revenue is up 3165% on the market; 30 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $955 (exactly $955) |
|---|---|
| Median | $17k (exactly $17,383) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $28,786) |
| Top 5% | $156k (exactly $156,496) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 30 |
| 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 up 3165% on the market, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, 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
- Medieval
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Naval Combat
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $15.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 53,324 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $960. 30 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Naval Combat with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + World War IIFair
- + MilitaryFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
Comparable games
Besiege 2020 · $22M 
Frozenheim 2022 · $2.1M 
Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey 2025 · $156k 
The Viking Way 2020 · EA · $149k 
The Adventurer's Domain Online 2023 · EA · $99k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Besiege | older | $14.99 | 48,045 95% | 1.4M | $22M (exactly $21,605,836) | Spiderling Studios |
| | Frozenheim | older | $19.99 | 3,463 70% | 104k | $2.1M (exactly $2,076,761) | Paranoid Interactive |
| | Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey | $14.99 | 348 79% | 10k | $156k (exactly $156,496) | World of Poly | |
| | The Viking Way | · EA older | $14.99 | 331 42% | 9.9k | $149k (exactly $148,851) | Ice Lava Games |
| | The Adventurer's Domain Online | · EA older | $15.99 | 207 65% | 6.2k | $99k (exactly $99,298) | Unbalanced Equations |
 | Uncharted Ocean | older | $4.99 | 563 70% | 17k | $84k (exactly $84,281) | HiRabbitgame |
 | East India Company | older | $9.99 | 190 52% | 5.7k | $57k (exactly $56,943) | Nitro Games |
 | Ancient Wars: Medieval Crusades | · EA older | $19.99 | 90 82% | 2.7k | $54k (exactly $53,973) | JOTASOFT STUDIOS |
 | City States: Medieval | $19.99 | 48 68% | 1.4k | $29k (exactly $28,786) | Reverie World Studios | |
 | Realms of Madness | $15.99 | 39 89% | 1.2k | $19k (exactly $18,708) | Robin van der Horst | |
 | Dreadful River | $9.99 | 58 72% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,383) | SureAI | |
 | Ship of the line | · EA | $7.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $2.2k (exactly $2,157) | YDS |
 | Wyrd Waters | $1.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $955 (exactly $955) | Maximalist | |
 | Tales of Arcrath | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Codex Games USA | |
 | Xenocide | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Cryptomnesic |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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