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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Naval Combat game?
Naval Combat + Procedural Generation
Only 12 developers shipped a Procedural Generation 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, Darkwater, 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, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.7k, ×4.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $290k, ×472 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 33 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) |
| Top 25% | $17k (exactly $17,383) |
| Top 5% | $296k (exactly $296,403) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 1000% 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
- Procedural Generation
- 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, Procedural Generation
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 1,180 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 33 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Naval Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter 2023 · $767k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Pixel Piracy | older | $14.99 | 5,713 65% | 171k | $2.6M (exactly $2,569,136) | Vitali Kirpu |
| | Abandon Ship | older | $24.99 | 1,151 71% | 35k | $863k (exactly $862,905) | Fireblade Software |
| | Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles | older | $19.99 | 1,381 85% | 41k | $828k (exactly $828,186) | Tomas Sala |
| | Windward | older | $9.99 | 2,668 79% | 80k | $800k (exactly $799,600) | Tasharen Entertainment Inc. |
| | Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter | older | $29.99 | 852 73% | 26k | $767k (exactly $766,544) | Iron Wolf Studio S.A. |
 | King of Seas | older | $24.99 | 603 57% | 18k | $452k (exactly $452,069) | 3DClouds |
 | Sail Forth | older | $19.99 | 604 92% | 18k | $362k (exactly $362,219) | Festive Vector |
 | Darkwater | $9.99 | 989 77% | 30k | $296k (exactly $296,403) | Targon Studios | |
 | Battlecruisers | older | $9.99 | 386 83% | 12k | $116k (exactly $115,684) | Mecha Weka |
 | Winds Of Trade | older | $11.99 | 154 61% | 4.6k | $55k (exactly $55,394) | Rhombico Games |
 | Red Rogue Sea | $16.99 | 53 64% | 1.6k | $27k (exactly $27,014) | Firemage Studios | |
 | Dreadful River | $9.99 | 58 72% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,383) | SureAI | |
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 | Kamikaze Survivors | $9.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | DaboSoft | |
 | Mech and Tech 1 | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | colmer_it UG | |
 | Pirate Twist | · EA | $4.67 | 5 100% | 150 | $700 (exactly $700) | BTG Labs |
 | Mk50TWL Vehicle Battler Custom Slider | · EA | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | TimberWoodLumber Games |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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