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Should I ship a Space Sim Third-Person Shooter?
Third-Person Shooter + Space Sim
Only 8 developers shipped a Space Sim Third-Person Shooter 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, Starfield Battlegrounds, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 42 more are announced, ×14 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $180 against a market of $1.5k. 42 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 5% | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 42 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 710% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Third-Person Shooter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Space Sim
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Third-Person Shooter, Space Sim
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $6.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 2,080 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 42 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×14 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Third-Person Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RhythmStrong odds
- + WesternFair
- + CollectathonLong shot
- + Time ManagementLong shot
- + Walking SimulatorLong shot
- + Class-BasedPoor odds
- + Creature CollectorPoor odds
- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Level EditorPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
Comparable games
Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD 2012 · $355k 
Lost Fleet 2022 · EA · $40k 
Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey 2014 · $35k 
Orange Cast: Sci-Fi Space Action Game 2021 · $30k 
Intergalactic Ecstasy 2024 · $27k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD | older | $7.99 | 1,479 77% | 44k | $355k (exactly $354,516) | Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH |
| | Lost Fleet | · EA older | $19.99 | 67 61% | 2.0k | $40k (exactly $40,180) | InfinityNan Studios |
| | Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey | older | $6.99 | 165 73% | 5.0k | $35k (exactly $34,600) | Ultravision Interactive |
| | Orange Cast: Sci-Fi Space Action Game | older | $6.99 | 143 46% | 4.3k | $30k (exactly $29,987) | Team Rez |
| | Intergalactic Ecstasy | older | $14.99 | 60 86% | 1.8k | $27k (exactly $26,982) | HFTGames |
 | NIGHTSTAR | older | $9.99 | 59 91% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,682) | SOLIDMESH |
 | SilverFrame(纯白星原) | older | $6.99 | 70 88% | 2.1k | $15k (exactly $14,679) | phixcat |
 | Arc Savior | older | $9.99 | 25 68% | 750 | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) | Squid Monkey Studios |
 | The Mystery Of The Moon | older | $59.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $5.4k (exactly $5,399) | HUANG MEI ZHAO |
 | Red Planet Rampart | older | $11.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $3.2k (exactly $3,237) | Beijing 1023 Technology CO., Ltd |
 | Starfield Battlegrounds | $6.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) | 谭浩翔 | |
 | Red Siren: Space Defense | $14.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | ISTOM Games | |
 | Infinite Space: Mining | $2.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Taner Saydam | |
 | Journey to Earth | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Digital Kingdom | |
 | GALAXY WARS Ⅱ | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | JIT Inc | |
 | Starship Destroyer | $0.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | North Star Studios | |
 | Battleships Collide: Space Shooter | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | HapGames | |
 | Space Rocks in Space | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Rock Hyrax |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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