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Should I ship a Psychological-Horror Space Sim?
Space Sim + Psychological Horror
Only 12 developers shipped a Psychological-Horror 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, Endless Dark, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $27k, ×44 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $718 (exactly $718) |
| Top 25% | $5.5k (exactly $5,472) |
| Top 5% | $28k (exactly $27,566) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Psychological Horror
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Space Sim
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 265 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Space Sim with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DestructionFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + WarFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SportsFair
- + DiplomacyLong shot
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Endless Dark 2024 · $28k 
Go For Launch: Mercury 2021 · $18k 
CRYODEATH VR 2024 · $16k 
Lunar Lander Beyond 2024 · $13k 
Planet Scanner 2024 · $7.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Endless Dark | $7.99 | 115 99% | 3.5k | $28k (exactly $27,566) | Little Light Studios, LLC | |
| | Go For Launch: Mercury | older | $9.99 | 59 81% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,682) | Joe Chisholm |
| | CRYODEATH VR | older | $24.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $16k (exactly $15,744) | Kerag Elisaar |
| | Lunar Lander Beyond | older | $29.99 | 14 42% | 420 | $13k (exactly $12,596) | Dreams Uncorporated |
| | Planet Scanner | $7.99 | 29 96% | 870 | $7.0k (exactly $6,951) | Ham Goblin | |
 | TuHou Remilia - Begin Of Scarlet Family | older | $6.99 | 33 9% | 990 | $6.9k (exactly $6,920) | CoKe_Deer |
 | Astrophobia | $2.99 | 61 77% | 1.8k | $5.5k (exactly $5,472) | CosmicArcade | |
 | Cosmolace | $6.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | CCyoltose | |
 | International Space Banana | older | $0.99 | 94 93% | 2.8k | $2.8k (exactly $2,792) | Cool Scooter Software |
 | Project Proxima | older | $4.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | Luna Apps |
 | BURN | $2.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $2.3k (exactly $2,332) | Wumbo Workshop LLC | |
 | The Survivor | $2.99 | 8 37% | 240 | $718 (exactly $718) | Cyber752 | |
 | My Apollogies | $3.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Spatium Interactive d.o.o | |
 | Anomaly Operation | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | for | |
 | Echo | $2.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Mistway | |
 | a dead astronaut in space | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | a dead astronaut |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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