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Should I ship a Turn-Based Tactics Space Sim?
Space Sim + Turn-Based Tactics
Only 11 developers shipped a Turn-Based Tactics 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.. 16 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.2k, ×3.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $49k, ×79 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 16 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) |
| Top 25% | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) |
| Top 5% | $49k (exactly $49,467) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 down 90% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Turn-Based Tactics
- 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, Turn-Based Tactics
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 82% positive over 202 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Space Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DestructionFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + WarFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SportsFair
- + DiplomacyLong shot
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
Comparable games
60 Parsecs! 2018 · $992k 
Deep Space Battle Simulator 2021 · $107k 
Flotilla 2010 · $61k 
Deck & Conn 2026 · $49k 
Space Cats Tactics 2023 · $45k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 60 Parsecs! | older | $9.99 | 3,310 90% | 99k | $992k (exactly $992,007) | Robot Gentleman |
| | Deep Space Battle Simulator | older | $9.99 | 358 78% | 11k | $107k (exactly $107,293) | yeswecamp |
| | Flotilla | older | $9.99 | 202 83% | 6.1k | $61k (exactly $60,539) | Blendo Games |
| | Deck & Conn | $14.99 | 110 74% | 3.3k | $49k (exactly $49,467) | Funtime Electrics | |
| | Space Cats Tactics | older | $14.99 | 100 74% | 3.0k | $45k (exactly $44,970) | Mitzi Games, Alex Nicola |
 | Warp to Sector One | · EA | $11.99 | 41 92% | 1.2k | $15k (exactly $14,748) | hextor.Games |
 | Keng's Little Universe | · EA older | $12.99 | 24 87% | 720 | $9.4k (exactly $9,353) | Keng7 |
 | Flotilla 2 | older | $9.99 | 29 72% | 870 | $8.7k (exactly $8,691) | Blendo Games |
 | Star Titans : War of the Galaxy | $14.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Mediawork | |
 | Sidereal Wanderer | older | $5.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $4.7k (exactly $4,672) | SPICE PRESS |
 | Hexalith | $9.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Artemi Studios | |
 | Star Scum | · EA | $14.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $2.7k (exactly $2,698) | Soft Realm |
 | Epic Space Trader | · EA | $5.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) | Digital Tectonics, LLC |
 | Cosmic Outpost | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Gökdeniz Yılmaz | |
 | GALAXY WARS Ⅱ | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | JIT Inc | |
 | Stellar Hustler | $4.39 | 1 100% | 30 | $132 (exactly $132) | Cenrellia Studios | |
 | Reactor Critical | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Terran Future Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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