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Should I ship a Spaceship Tactical game?
Tactical + Spaceships
Only 7 developers shipped a Spaceship Tactical 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, Starless Abyss, 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, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.3k, ×10 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $6.0k; 1 in 20 cleared $170k, ×283 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) |
| Top 25% | $157k (exactly $156,687) |
| Top 5% | $178k (exactly $177,511) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tactical
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Spaceships
- 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
- Tactical
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $14.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 13,702 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $6.0k. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 2019 · $5.8M 
Shortest Trip to Earth 2019 · $980k 
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident 2007 · $296k 
Gratuitous Space Battles 2009 · $255k 
Starless Abyss 2025 · $178k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 | older | $19.99 | 9,701 74% | 291k | $5.8M (exactly $5,817,690) | Tindalos Interactive |
| | Shortest Trip to Earth | older | $25.99 | 1,257 76% | 38k | $980k (exactly $980,083) | Interactive Fate |
| | Nexus - The Jupiter Incident | older | $9.99 | 987 85% | 30k | $296k (exactly $295,804) | Mithis Games |
| | Gratuitous Space Battles | older | $14.99 | 568 72% | 17k | $255k (exactly $255,430) | Positech Games |
| | Starless Abyss | $19.99 | 296 83% | 8.9k | $178k (exactly $177,511) | Konafa Games | |
 | Final Theory | older | $14.99 | 386 79% | 12k | $174k (exactly $173,584) | Monticube |
 | BattleGroupVR2 | · EA | $24.99 | 209 85% | 6.3k | $157k (exactly $156,687) | SpaceOwl Games |
 | Dimensions: Dreadnought Architect | · EA older | $15.99 | 184 55% | 5.5k | $88k (exactly $88,265) | Craft Theory |
 | Eternal Starlight VR | older | $14.99 | 69 89% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,029) | White Noise Games |
 | To the Stars | older | $14.99 | 45 88% | 1.4k | $20k (exactly $20,236) | Stellar Cartography Interactive |
 | Fleetbreakers | · EA | $14.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $11k (exactly $11,242) | Last Keep |
 | Stellar Raiders | $9.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Five Head Games | |
 | Space Menace 2 | $9.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) | Only4Gamers | |
 | A-Spec First Assault | $14.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Digitum Software | |
 | Infinite Empire | · EA | $14.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | Better Tools LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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