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Should I ship a Point & Click Space Sim?
Space Sim + Point & Click
Only 16 developers shipped a Point & Click Space Sim 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, Approximately Up, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $740k, ×1188 the market median. Revenue is down 35% on the market; 16 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $238 (exactly $238) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 25% | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) |
| Top 5% | $746k (exactly $745,952) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 35% on the market, supply 120% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Space Sim
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Space Sim, Point & Click
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,875 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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- + SandboxPoor odds
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Comparable games
60 Parsecs! 2018 · $992k 
Approximately Up 2026 · $746k 
Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite 2025 · $125k 
Interstellaria 2015 · $106k 
Lunar Ascendant 2026 · $39k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 60 Parsecs! | older | $9.99 | 3,310 90% | 99k | $992k (exactly $992,007) | Robot Gentleman |
| | Approximately Up | $24.99 | 995 93% | 30k | $746k (exactly $745,952) | Approximately Games | |
| | Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite | $5.99 | 698 83% | 21k | $125k (exactly $125,431) | RyanJakob | |
| | Interstellaria | older | $9.99 | 353 53% | 11k | $106k (exactly $105,794) | Coldrice Games LLC |
| | Lunar Ascendant | $14.99 | 86 44% | 2.6k | $39k (exactly $38,674) | Darts Games | |
 | General Horse and the Package of Doom | older | $9.99 | 54 98% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $16,184) | Studio spektar, Porcupine Parkour |
 | The Last Hope | older | $1.99 | 268 46% | 8.0k | $16k (exactly $16,000) | Balti Calarasi |
 | IFO | older | $3.99 | 109 84% | 3.3k | $13k (exactly $13,047) | Lucas Le Slo, taletronic, Sergi Sabater |
 | Aim in Space | older | $4.99 | 42 95% | 1.3k | $6.3k (exactly $6,287) | Serhii Khramov, Davyd Moskalenko, Maksy… (Serhii Khramov, Davyd Moskalenko, Maksym Kanshin) |
 | T. B. P. | older | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Delos: Space Traffic Control | $2.99 | 48 77% | 1.4k | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) | hv | |
 | Cosmolace | $6.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | CCyoltose | |
 | Planet Keeper Program | $5.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Robo-Human Studios | |
 | Alien Battlefield | $9.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | TapfunGame | |
 | Frontiers Reach : Battlespace | · EA | $7.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Blind Alien Productions |
 | Anomaly Operation | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | for | |
 | Pure Idle | $0.99 | 12 33% | 360 | $356 (exactly $356) | Riven Elow |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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