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Should I ship a Sci-fi Transportation game?
Transportation + Sci-fi
Only 18 developers shipped a Sci-fi Transportation 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, shapez 2 - Factory, 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, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $12M, ×19836 the market median. Revenue is up 350% on the market; 44 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $600 (exactly $600) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 25% | $7.8k (exactly $7,794) |
| Top 5% | $12M (exactly $12,457,246) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 47 |
| Announced | 44 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 up 350% on the market, supply 160% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Transportation
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Sci-fi
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Transportation; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Exploration, Simulation, Sandbox
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Atmospheric, Dark
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 17,538 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 44 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Transportation with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + PvPFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + RacingFair
- + Action-AdventureFair
- + LogicFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Level EditorPoor odds
- + Life SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Pacific Drive 2024 · $19M 
shapez 2 - Factory 2026 · $12M 
Star Trucker 2024 · $3.7M 
Plan B: Terraform 2025 · $1.7M 
InfraSpace 2023 · $1.2M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Pacific Drive | older | $29.99 | 21,547 83% | 646k | $19M (exactly $19,385,836) | Ironwood Studios |
| | shapez 2 - Factory | $29.99 | 13,846 96% | 415k | $12M (exactly $12,457,246) | tobspr Games | |
| | Star Trucker | older | $24.99 | 4,928 77% | 148k | $3.7M (exactly $3,694,522) | Monster and Monster |
| | Plan B: Terraform | $15.99 | 3,526 91% | 106k | $1.7M (exactly $1,691,422) | Gaddy Games | |
| | InfraSpace | older | $24.99 | 1,638 82% | 49k | $1.2M (exactly $1,228,009) | Dionic Software |
 | Frontier Pilot Simulator | older | $24.99 | 836 69% | 25k | $627k (exactly $626,749) | RAZAR s.r.o. |
 | Flight Of Nova | · EA older | $29.99 | 537 93% | 16k | $483k (exactly $483,139) | Aerovery Lab |
 | Interstellar Transport Company | older | $24.99 | 395 65% | 12k | $296k (exactly $296,132) | MT Worlds |
 | SimplePlanes VR | older | $9.99 | 175 86% | 5.3k | $52k (exactly $52,448) | Jundroo, LLC |
 | Moons of Ardan | · EA older | $19.99 | 76 94% | 2.3k | $46k (exactly $45,577) | Pandora Technology |
 | TAXINAUT | $19.99 | 39 87% | 1.2k | $23k (exactly $23,388) | mosgrom | |
 | MOONROT | $5.99 | 66 86% | 2.0k | $12k (exactly $11,860) | Bee Braun | |
 | Void Cargo: Equilibrium | $12.99 | 20 70% | 600 | $7.8k (exactly $7,794) | Hammer&Hammer | |
 | Galatico | · EA | $7.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Galatico Studios |
 | ADRIFT | $12.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $2.3k (exactly $2,338) | S . K . 9 . 8 | |
 | Minuto - Galactic Deliveries | $4.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $2.2k (exactly $2,246) | Yellow Seahorse Games | |
 | The Chaser's Voyage | $19.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Bright at Midnight: A Game Studio | |
 | Frost Loop | $6.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Digx7 Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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