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Should I ship a Science Tabletop game?
Tabletop + Science
Only 7 developers shipped a Science Tabletop 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, Nature Game System, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $90 against a market of $480. 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $90 (exactly $90) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $21,878) |
| Top 5% | $29k (exactly $29,385) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Tabletop
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 1,898 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 12 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Tabletop with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Nexus 5X 2024 · $398k 
Evolution Board Game 2019 · $156k 
3D Math - Ultra 2020 · $33k 
Nature Game System 2025 · $29k 
SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD 2025 · $22k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nexus 5X | older | $14.99 | 884 90% | 27k | $398k (exactly $397,535) | Whatboy Games |
| | Evolution Board Game | older | $14.99 | 348 81% | 10k | $156k (exactly $156,496) | North Star Digital Studios |
| | 3D Math - Ultra | older | $4.99 | 218 92% | 6.5k | $33k (exactly $32,635) | Big Mind Games 9000 |
| | Nature Game System | $19.99 | 49 73% | 1.5k | $29k (exactly $29,385) | North Star Digital Games | |
| | SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD | $9.99 | 73 83% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,878) | Logix Interactive | |
 | Rockets Are Super Hard | older | $11.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $6.5k (exactly $6,475) | Propulsion Games |
 | MILF HUNTER | older | $1.99 | 105 91% | 3.2k | $6.3k (exactly $6,268) | Milk Poison |
 | Animal Wish | older | $1.99 | 83 79% | 2.5k | $5.0k (exactly $4,955) | Milk Poison |
 | Meta Sudoku | older | $1.99 | 75 80% | 2.3k | $4.5k (exactly $4,478) | Matrix Science |
 | SEARCH ALL - POTIONS | older | $2.99 | 45 88% | 1.4k | $4.0k (exactly $4,037) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | FocusFlow Field | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | RoamingPoetXi | |
 | Dice Chemist | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Jihwan | |
 | 24 Grab Points | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Meta Entropy Culture | |
 | 粒子战争 Particle Wars | · EA | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | jizai |
 | Quizverse | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BBGS Productions |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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