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Should I ship a War Walking Simulator?
Walking Simulator + War
Only 10 developers shipped a War 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, The Caribou Trail, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.1k, ×8.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $2.9k. Revenue is up 260% on the market; 12 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.9k (exactly $2,870) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) |
| Top 25% | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) |
| Top 5% | $248k (exactly $247,849) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 12 |
| 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 up 260% on the market, supply 135% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, 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
- War
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Walking Simulator
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 90% positive over 1,626 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.9k. 12 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Walking Simulator with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + PsychologicalFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Mystery DungeonFair
- + NoirFair
- + HorrorFair
Comparable games
11-11 Memories Retold 2018 · $602k 
Plane Mechanic Simulator 2024 · $561k 
Torn Away 2023 · $268k 
The Caribou Trail 2026 · $248k 
Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory 2024 · $185k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 11-11 Memories Retold | older | $29.99 | 669 89% | 20k | $602k (exactly $601,899) | Aardman Animations, Digixart |
| | Plane Mechanic Simulator | older | $11.99 | 1,561 56% | 47k | $561k (exactly $561,492) | Cobble Games, Disaster Studio |
| | Torn Away | older | $14.99 | 595 92% | 18k | $268k (exactly $267,572) | perelesoq |
| | The Caribou Trail | $12.99 | 636 90% | 19k | $248k (exactly $247,849) | Unreliable Narrators, Manavoid Entertai… (Unreliable Narrators, Manavoid Entertainment) | |
| | Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory | older | $9.99 | 618 89% | 19k | $185k (exactly $185,215) | Rockodile |
 | It Takes a War | $5.99 | 885 91% | 27k | $159k (exactly $159,034) | Thomas Mackinnon | |
 | Furry Feet | older | $2.99 | 789 84% | 24k | $71k (exactly $70,773) | bhungry |
 | Trenches VR | $14.99 | 21 66% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | Steelkrill Studio | |
 | Hentai Mission Ukraine | older | $1.99 | 140 91% | 4.2k | $8.4k (exactly $8,358) | Who We Are Games |
 | D-Day VR Museum | $14.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $7.2k (exactly $7,195) | Lichtblau IT | |
 | Just Skill Shooter 4 | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Back to Dust - Hold it Together | $6.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $3.6k (exactly $3,565) | KomBits Game Studio | |
 | Letters of longing | $2.99 | 32 96% | 960 | $2.9k (exactly $2,870) | Happy Break Bones | |
 | How Deep Is the Dark Water? | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Rhett Tsai | |
 | VR Destroyer Kikuzuki | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Destroyer Kikuzuki Association | |
 | A Game About Leading A Crowds | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jacobdev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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