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Should I ship a Military Sports game?
Sports + Military
Only 8 developers shipped a Military Sports 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, Tour de France 2025, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $410 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $405 (exactly $405) |
| Top 5% | $218k (exactly $218,345) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.50 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Sports
- Price point
- $4.50 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 2,298 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Sports with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + BikesFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + Choices MatterFair
Comparable games
Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator 2022 · $2.5M 
Tour de France 2025 2025 · $218k 
Berzerk Flashback 2021 · $44k 
The Last Hope: Trump vs Mafia - North Korea 2017 · $42k 
Range is HOT! 2021 · EA · $35k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator | older | $59.99 | 1,400 89% | 42k | $2.5M (exactly $2,519,580) | IPACS |
| | Tour de France 2025 | $39.99 | 182 77% | 5.5k | $218k (exactly $218,345) | Cyanide Studio | |
| | Berzerk Flashback | older | $9.99 | 147 93% | 4.4k | $44k (exactly $44,056) | Berzerk Studio |
| | The Last Hope: Trump vs Mafia - North Korea | older | $4.99 | 280 56% | 8.4k | $42k (exactly $41,916) | new dev |
| | Range is HOT! | · EA older | $29.99 | 39 74% | 1.2k | $35k (exactly $35,088) | Winter Bear Studio |
 | Boot Camp Fitness | older | $10.99 | 66 96% | 2.0k | $22k (exactly $21,760) | Kevin Baker |
 | Deadly Dozen | older | $9.99 | 59 72% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,682) | N-Fusion Interactive |
 | The Mythical City 4 | older | $49.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $15k (exactly $14,997) | Gamesforgames |
 | Reload | older | $4.99 | 95 70% | 2.9k | $14k (exactly $14,222) | Top3Line s.r.o. |
 | Desert Special Forces | older | $19.99 | 20 65% | 600 | $12k (exactly $11,994) | Gamesforgames |
 | BERSERK TANK | $4.50 | 3 66% | 90 | $405 (exactly $405) | WU YU CHENG | |
 | SALT: Super Awesome Laser Tag | $2.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Foxmoon Studios | |
 | Accurate Adjacent Ballistics Simulator | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | MagusForge | |
 | Night of the Witch's Invasion | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | Final battle in zhifudao | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | JIANGFENG | |
 | Tessera | · EA | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | MUGI Games |
 | SSS-FPV | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 无敌飞行员 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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