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Should I ship a Puzzle Platformer Space Sim?
Space Sim + Puzzle Platformer
Only 4 developers shipped a Puzzle Platformer Space Sim in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 10 did: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 6 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $840 against a market of $630. 6 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $718 (exactly $718) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 5% | $151k (exactly $150,650) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 6 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 19%, 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
- Puzzle Platformer
- 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, Puzzle Platformer
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 686 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 6 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Space Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 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
Planet Lust 2026 · $151k 
SpaceKraft! 2024 · $22k 
2D Neon Cube 2017 · $22k 
Residual 2021 · $14k 
Space Ducks: The great escape 2022 · $3.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Planet Lust | $14.99 | 335 76% | 10k | $151k (exactly $150,650) | Skullgear | |
| | SpaceKraft! | older | $11.99 | 62 85% | 1.9k | $22k (exactly $22,301) | Game Dev Garage |
| | 2D Neon Cube | older | $3.99 | 180 65% | 5.4k | $22k (exactly $21,546) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | Residual | older | $19.99 | 24 66% | 720 | $14k (exactly $14,393) | Orangepixel |
| | Space Ducks: The great escape | older | $3.99 | 29 82% | 870 | $3.5k (exactly $3,471) | 6 Toad Games, taletronic |
 | Space Hole 2018 | older | $3.99 | 26 96% | 780 | $3.1k (exactly $3,112) | Sam Atlas |
 | Space Worthy | · EA older | $7.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $2.2k (exactly $2,157) | GenreStorm Studio |
 | Pinball Lockdown | · EA older | $5.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | Onteca Ltd |
 | Artificial Gravity Cat | · EA older | $4.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Me |
 | CUBE-e | older | $9.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Piece Of Voxel |
 | Gravity Drop | $6.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Octopie Lab | |
 | Only Up To Space | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Mascot Bro Studio, PixelHixel Games | |
 | Thrustme Too | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nikolaj Piet Pagh |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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