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Should I ship a 2D Platformer Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + 2D Platformer
Only 5 developers shipped a 2D Platformer Vehicular Combat 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, SharedScreen Wagons 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $0 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 18 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $240 (exactly $240) |
| Top 5% | $16k (exactly $15,584) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 2D Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Vehicular Combat, 2D Platformer
- Price point
- $7.99 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 82% positive over 2,482 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Looter ShooterFair
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
Mighty Goose 2021 · $566k 
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX 2021 · $453k 
Mechanic Miner 2020 · $41k 
Speed Limit 2021 · $41k 
Astro Duel 2 2024 · $35k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mighty Goose | older | $19.99 | 943 86% | 28k | $566k (exactly $565,517) | Blastmode, MP2 Games |
| | Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX | older | $19.99 | 756 80% | 23k | $453k (exactly $453,373) | Jankenteam |
| | Mechanic Miner | older | $7.99 | 173 53% | 5.2k | $41k (exactly $41,468) | Hello John |
| | Speed Limit | older | $9.99 | 136 80% | 4.1k | $41k (exactly $40,759) | Gamechuck |
| | Astro Duel 2 | older | $19.99 | 59 100% | 1.8k | $35k (exactly $35,382) | Rusty Moyher |
 | Rocket Bot Royale | older | $2.99 | 243 88% | 7.3k | $22k (exactly $21,797) | Winterpixel Games |
 | Jetboard Joust | older | $9.99 | 63 82% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $18,881) | BitBull Ltd |
 | SharedScreen Wagons 2 | $9.99 | 52 98% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $15,584) | Anti-Ded GameDev | |
 | Droneboi: Conquest | older | $8.99 | 42 73% | 1.3k | $11k (exactly $11,327) | Rizen Planet Studios |
 | Hijack Overdrive | older | $14.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $6.7k (exactly $6,746) | Meteor Studios |
 | FrogCore | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Vladyslav Pozdniakov | |
 | Ultra's Drive | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ultraedge |
 | Wreckwake Endless Sea | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jetsan Inc | |
 | DRIFT ME! | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gone Wrong Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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