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Should I ship a Train Walking Simulator?
Walking Simulator + Trains
Only 7 developers shipped a Train Walking Simulator 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, Brno Transit, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $8.3k, ×13 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $150k, ×253 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 19 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $8.3k (exactly $8,266) |
| Top 25% | $21k (exactly $20,614) |
| Top 5% | $159k (exactly $158,853) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Walking Simulator
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Trains
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Walking Simulator
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $4.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 8,851 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 19 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Walking Simulator with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Train Sim World® 2020 2017 · $2.3M 
Subway Midnight 2021 · $346k 
World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 2015 · $181k 
Brno Transit 2026 · $159k 
NOSTALGIC TRAIN 2018 · $67k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Train Sim World® 2020 | older | $12.99 | 5,912 77% | 177k | $2.3M (exactly $2,303,906) | Dovetail Games |
| | Subway Midnight | older | $9.99 | 1,155 79% | 35k | $346k (exactly $346,154) | Bubby Darkstar |
| | World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 | older | $19.99 | 302 70% | 9.1k | $181k (exactly $181,109) | TML-Studios |
| | Brno Transit | $8.99 | 589 85% | 18k | $159k (exactly $158,853) | Spytihněv | |
| | NOSTALGIC TRAIN | older | $11.99 | 187 76% | 5.6k | $67k (exactly $67,264) | Tatamibeya 畳部屋 |
 | Red Passport: Ticket to Russia | $7.99 | 86 72% | 2.6k | $21k (exactly $20,614) | Stop-TussiN | |
 | Save Twiks | older | $4.99 | 125 61% | 3.8k | $19k (exactly $18,712) | REVVALUTION Studio |
 | Short Trip | $1.99 | 280 98% | 8.4k | $17k (exactly $16,716) | Alexander Perrin | |
 | Trans-Siberian Legends | older | $4.99 | 109 55% | 3.3k | $16k (exactly $16,317) | Stop-TussiN |
 | Russian Train Trip | older | $3.99 | 106 43% | 3.2k | $13k (exactly $12,688) | Stop-TussiN |
 | Anomalous Railroad Crossing | $5.99 | 46 86% | 1.4k | $8.3k (exactly $8,266) | Liner Studio | |
 | Calm Before the Storm | $5.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Trident | |
 | Zero Warning: Burnt Out | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Ian Durra, Justin Bretter | |
 | Normile | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | SomeBadScripter |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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