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Indie · Sci-fi
INDIE-FRIENDLY
Strong opportunity and the top tier is 100% solo/small studios — indies are already winning here, and there's still room. For solo developers specifically, 7% of 178 games here cross the winner line — the rate for your scale, not the blended average.
Graded for a solo / small studio · data current as of 2026-08-01
Opportunity
90%
buyer demand vs. supply
Saturation
29%
how crowded the lane is
Games tracked
257
in this exact tag combo
Median revenue est.
$10K
directional, lifetime
Review velocity
+0.21/day
new reviews / day
Who's winning here
The highest-rated, most-reviewed titles carrying this exact tag combo — the bar a new entrant is measured against.
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Hidden Path Entertainment
FTL: Faster Than Light
Subset Games
The Swapper
Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo Castellano
Directional, not a forecast. Scores are a snapshot of demand and competition from public market data, normalized across the catalogue. Revenue is an estimate, not reported earnings. Use it to compare lanes — not to predict a single game's outcome.
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