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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Political Sim?
Political Sim + Procedural Generation
Only 18 developers shipped a Procedural Generation Political 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, MEMORIAPOLIS, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 44 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $9.4k, ×20 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $3.3k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.6M, ×3541 the market median. Revenue is down 45% on the market; 44 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) |
| Top 25% | $111k (exactly $111,488) |
| Top 5% | $1.7M (exactly $1,681,920) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 44 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 45% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Political Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Political Sim, Procedural Generation; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Colony Sim, Management
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $28.00 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Dialogue Heavy
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $28.00 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 3,693 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.3k. 8 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 44 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Political Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DetectiveFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Board GameFair
- + TabletopFair
- + CombatPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + FuturisticPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
WorldBox - God Simulator 2021 · EA · $31M 
MEMORIAPOLIS 2025 · $1.7M 
Urbek City Builder 2022 · $1.0M 
Fantasy Map Simulator 2024 · EA · $1.0M 
The Shrouded Isle 2017 · $454k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WorldBox - God Simulator | · EA older | $19.99 | 51,071 95% | 1.5M | $31M (exactly $30,627,279) | Maxim Karpenko |
| | MEMORIAPOLIS | $32.00 | 1,752 75% | 53k | $1.7M (exactly $1,681,920) | 5PM Studio | |
| | Urbek City Builder | older | $18.99 | 1,830 89% | 55k | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,551) | Fridus |
| | Fantasy Map Simulator | · EA older | $7.99 | 4,190 89% | 126k | $1.0M (exactly $1,004,343) | The Stranger |
| | The Shrouded Isle | older | $12.99 | 1,166 71% | 35k | $454k (exactly $454,390) | Jongwoo Kim, Erica Lahaie, FX Bilodeau,… (Jongwoo Kim, Erica Lahaie, FX Bilodeau, Tanya Short) |
 | The End of History | · EA | $28.00 | 366 68% | 11k | $307k (exactly $307,440) | Tatamibeya |
 | Ultimate Arena | older | $7.99 | 811 83% | 24k | $194k (exactly $194,397) | Triverske |
 | Sinner Maker | · EA | $9.66 | 545 91% | 16k | $158k (exactly $157,941) | Pantokrator |
 | Astrobuilder | $14.99 | 350 88% | 11k | $157k (exactly $157,395) | wastudio | |
 | Rogue AI Simulator | older | $11.99 | 364 82% | 11k | $131k (exactly $130,931) | Nerdook Productions |
 | Pandora's Toybox | $9.99 | 372 83% | 11k | $111k (exactly $111,488) | BetaLab | |
 | Political Arena | · EA | $14.99 | 69 73% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,029) | Wayside Press |
 | Kiloton | $6.99 | 103 96% | 3.1k | $22k (exactly $21,599) | Jack Morehart | |
 | Observe | · EA | $7.99 | 74 91% | 2.2k | $18k (exactly $17,738) | Kisotik Games |
 | Life of an NPC | · EA | $14.99 | 21 52% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | Max Loh |
 | Antiyoy | $4.99 | 41 85% | 1.2k | $6.1k (exactly $6,138) | yiotro |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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