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Should I ship a Space Sim Sports game?
Space Sim + Sports
Only 8 developers shipped a Space Sim Sports 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, Exo Rally Championship, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480, ×0.8 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $50. Revenue is up 96455% on the market; 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 5% | $280k (exactly $280,388) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 9 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Space Sim, Sports
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 3,364 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Space Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Tactical RPGFair
- + WarFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + DiplomacyLong shot
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor 2020 · $1.1M 
Redout 2 2022 · $700k 
Exo Rally Championship 2026 · $280k 
Metapilot 2023 · $6.0k 
Gas Gas Rocket! 2024 · $3.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor | older | $19.99 | 1,758 78% | 53k | $1.1M (exactly $1,054,273) | Stray Fawn Studio |
| | Redout 2 | older | $19.99 | 1,168 82% | 35k | $700k (exactly $700,450) | 34BigThings srl |
| | Exo Rally Championship | $24.99 | 374 90% | 11k | $280k (exactly $280,388) | Exbleative | |
| | Metapilot | older | $19.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $6.0k (exactly $5,997) | neurobotx, www.neurobotx.ai |
| | Gas Gas Rocket! | older | $9.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Gamesforgames |
 | FPVSIM Drone Simulator | older | $8.99 | 12 16% | 360 | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) | fpvsim.com |
 | Pinball Lockdown | · EA older | $5.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | Onteca Ltd |
 | CosmoDrive:Infinity | older | $4.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Diamond Cats Studio |
 | Cygnus Pizza Race | older | $2.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $987 (exactly $987) | Longplay Games |
 | Off World Racing | · EA | $14.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | Off World Racing Company |
 | Pocket Rocket | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Jazzcat games | |
 | Handgun Football | $3.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | )erek( | |
 | OutSpaceX_EP1 | · EA | $2.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Fun2Studio |
 | Virtual Campus | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Virtual teacher | |
 | Planet Strike | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DanboruStudio | |
 | Catch These Hands | · EA | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | MissilexCrisis |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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