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Should I ship a 6DOF Racing game?
Racing + 6DOF
Only 13 developers shipped a 6DOF Racing 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, Firehawk: FPV Drone Shooter, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×4.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300, ×0.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 27 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper, while revenue is up 665% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) |
| Top 5% | $296k (exactly $296,252) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 63 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 665% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Racing, 6DOF; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Immersive Sim, Physics, Simulation
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with First-Person, Realistic, VR
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 9 games average 92% positive over 864 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
CarX Street 2024 · $11M 
Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator 2021 · $3.5M 
TRYP FPV: Drone Racer Simulator 2022 · EA · $1.6M 
Kayak VR: Mirage 2022 · $694k 
OverDrift Festival 2022 · $331k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | CarX Street | older | $19.99 | 17,600 72% | 528k | $11M (exactly $10,554,720) | CarX Technologies, LLC |
| | Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator | older | $14.99 | 7,770 95% | 233k | $3.5M (exactly $3,494,169) | Luminite |
| | TRYP FPV: Drone Racer Simulator | · EA older | $16.99 | 3,155 85% | 95k | $1.6M (exactly $1,608,103) | UNDEAD BATTERY |
| | Kayak VR: Mirage | older | $22.99 | 1,006 82% | 30k | $694k (exactly $693,838) | Better Than Life |
| | OverDrift Festival | older | $9.99 | 1,103 79% | 33k | $331k (exactly $330,569) | OverDrift Crew |
 | Firehawk: FPV Drone Shooter | $19.99 | 494 91% | 15k | $296k (exactly $296,252) | TruePlayers | |
 | Ultrawings | older | $14.99 | 378 88% | 11k | $170k (exactly $169,987) | Bit Planet Games, LLC |
 | Virtual Sailor NG | older | $39.99 | 132 90% | 4.0k | $158k (exactly $158,360) | Ilan Papini |
 | VR Sailing | $7.99 | 307 96% | 9.2k | $74k (exactly $73,588) | HFRK. | |
 | Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever | older | $19.99 | 62 83% | 1.9k | $37k (exactly $37,181) | XR Games |
 | Drone Simulator VR | $13.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $11k (exactly $11,332) | 0Space | |
 | Karting4Fun | $7.99 | 25 76% | 750 | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) | LukasH | |
 | Vertigo Rush | · EA | $14.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) | Sumalab |
 | Wingsuit: Romsdalen | $16.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $1.0k (exactly $1,019) | Ninja Whale Studios | |
 | ZipRush: Surf the Void | · EA | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Narriflux |
 | Squirrel Day | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Granite Top Games | |
 | Cyber Tunnel Escape | $3.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Li Zekang | |
 | Surplus | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Song Jun |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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