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Should I ship a Space Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Space
Of 62 developers who shipped a Space Vehicular Combat game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 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., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 127 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 35 developers shipped in the last year and 127 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $298 (exactly $298) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 5% | $19k (exactly $19,429) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 62 |
| Released games | 187 |
| Announced | 127 |
| 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 up 330% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Space
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Vehicular Combat; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Combat, Space Sim
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Realistic, 2D, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 747 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 29 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 127 games are announced against 35 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Looter ShooterFair
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II 2020 · $105M 
Trailmakers 2019 · $25M 
Avorion 2020 · $9.7M 
From the Depths 2020 · $8.3M 
STAR WARS™ Battlefront 2020 · $3.1M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II | older | $39.99 | 87,494 88% | 2.6M | $105M (exactly $104,966,552) | DICE |
| | Trailmakers | older | $24.99 | 33,465 92% | 1.0M | $25M (exactly $25,088,710) | Flashbulb |
| | Avorion | older | $24.99 | 13,001 90% | 390k | $9.7M (exactly $9,746,850) | Boxelware |
| | From the Depths | older | $24.99 | 11,059 89% | 332k | $8.3M (exactly $8,290,932) | Brilliant Skies Ltd. |
| | STAR WARS™ Battlefront | older | $19.99 | 5,190 79% | 156k | $3.1M (exactly $3,112,443) | DICE |
 | TerraTech Worlds | · EA older | $29.99 | 2,027 62% | 61k | $1.8M (exactly $1,823,692) | Payload Studios |
 | ΔV: Rings of Saturn | older | $9.99 | 2,880 93% | 86k | $863k (exactly $863,136) | Kodera Software |
 | Aero GPX | · EA older | $19.99 | 747 97% | 22k | $448k (exactly $447,976) | Aaron McDevitt |
 | Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls | · EA older | $29.99 | 487 66% | 15k | $438k (exactly $438,154) | Reason Generator Inc. |
 | Space Reign | $19.99 | 444 72% | 13k | $266k (exactly $266,267) | Propulsive Games | |
 | In The Black | · EA | $19.99 | 84 72% | 2.5k | $50k (exactly $50,375) | Impeller Studios |
 | Periapsis: Eclipse | · EA | $14.99 | 53 71% | 1.6k | $24k (exactly $23,834) | Skytrellis Games |
 | Dynasty Protocol | $17.99 | 36 63% | 1.1k | $19k (exactly $19,429) | Ellipses Studios | |
 | POLARIS™ | $19.99 | 32 59% | 960 | $19k (exactly $19,190) | POLARIS™ Team, Variable State | |
 | Space Dragons | $9.99 | 36 83% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $10,789) | TEAM Black Hat Robot | |
 | Into the M.A.W. | $14.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) | Moonrise Studios | |
 | Millennium Runners | $12.99 | 12 58% | 360 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | Commodore Industries | |
 | No Space For All | $4.99 | 26 100% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | Dudindie | |
 | Starbug Troopers : The 4 horseflies of the apocalypse | $8.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.5k (exactly $3,506) | Big Loot Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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