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Should I ship a Tactical RPG Space Sim?
Space Sim + Tactical RPG
Only 9 developers shipped a Tactical RPG Space Sim 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, Deck & Conn, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $900. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 15 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $899 (exactly $899) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 25% | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) |
| Top 5% | $49k (exactly $49,467) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 700% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, 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
- Tactical RPG
- 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
- Space Sim, Tactical RPG
- Price point
- $11.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 79% positive over 194 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 15 games are announced against 8 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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- + WarFair
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- + SportsFair
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- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
Starpoint Gemini Warlords 2017 · $3.2M 
Starpoint Gemini 2 2014 · $3.2M 
Between the Stars 2024 · $1.8M 
Star Traders: Frontiers 2018 · $1.7M 
Deck & Conn 2026 · $49k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Starpoint Gemini Warlords | older | $34.99 | 3,076 72% | 92k | $3.2M (exactly $3,228,877) | Little Green Men Games |
| | Starpoint Gemini 2 | older | $34.99 | 3,021 70% | 91k | $3.2M (exactly $3,171,144) | Little Green Men Games |
| | Between the Stars | older | $29.99 | 1,965 75% | 59k | $1.8M (exactly $1,767,910) | Isolated Games |
| | Star Traders: Frontiers | older | $14.99 | 3,672 83% | 110k | $1.7M (exactly $1,651,298) | Trese Brothers |
| | Deck & Conn | $14.99 | 110 74% | 3.3k | $49k (exactly $49,467) | Funtime Electrics | |
 | Auralux: Constellations | older | $9.99 | 153 79% | 4.6k | $46k (exactly $45,854) | Grove Street Games, E McNeill |
 | Space Cats Tactics | older | $14.99 | 100 74% | 3.0k | $45k (exactly $44,970) | Mitzi Games, Alex Nicola |
 | ReEarth | older | $7.99 | 116 74% | 3.5k | $28k (exactly $27,805) | Jiangzuogongfang Shanghai Game Co.,Ltd |
 | Spacefleet: Heat Death | · EA | $11.99 | 36 86% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,949) | Spacezero Interactive |
 | Null Hørizøn | $9.99 | 27 85% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | HopefullyHeroic | |
 | Epic Space Trader | · EA | $5.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) | Digital Tectonics, LLC |
 | Hired Stars | · EA | $19.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Mark Kaps |
 | Stellar Odyssey | · EA | $14.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | Warp Studios Pty Ltd |
 | SunWars | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Bode | |
 | Ironseed 3 : Vigil | $17.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $540 (exactly $540) | Robert Morgan | |
 | Ironseed : Lost Chapter | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Robert Morgan | |
 | RobotAssembly | · EA | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ONEKICK CO.,LTD. |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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