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Should I ship a Driving Action RPG?
Action RPG + Driving
Only 15 developers shipped a Driving Action RPG 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, Promise Mascot Agency, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×4.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.4k, ×3.6 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $2.4k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.9M, ×1286 the market median. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 32 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $28,771) |
| Top 5% | $1.9M (exactly $1,925,979) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 63 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 7 / 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 down 25% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action RPG
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Driving
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle handling feel is tuned by hand
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RPG, Driving; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Action, Action Roguelike
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 5,235 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.4k. 8 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 32 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action RPG with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + NavalFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + WesternFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + Walking SimulatorLong shot
- + WuxiaPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
Comparable games
Promise Mascot Agency 2025 · $1.9M 
Wanderburg 2026 · EA · $946k 
Juice Galaxy 2023 · EA · $186k 
Taora : Survival 2024 · EA · $148k 
Tornado: Research and Rescue 2023 · EA · $139k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Promise Mascot Agency | $24.99 | 2,569 96% | 77k | $1.9M (exactly $1,925,979) | Kaizen Game Works | |
| | Wanderburg | · EA | $14.99 | 2,103 78% | 63k | $946k (exactly $945,719) | Randwerk |
| | Juice Galaxy | · EA older | $4.99 | 1,244 98% | 37k | $186k (exactly $186,227) | Fishlicka |
| | Taora : Survival | · EA older | $13.99 | 353 55% | 11k | $148k (exactly $148,154) | Tulpar Games |
| | Tornado: Research and Rescue | · EA older | $12.99 | 356 85% | 11k | $139k (exactly $138,733) | Sam Kennedy |
 | Swords & Souls Legacy Collection | $9.99 | 337 94% | 10k | $101k (exactly $100,999) | SoulGame Studio | |
 | fox soldier | older | $14.99 | 199 98% | 6.0k | $89k (exactly $89,490) | yousoi, sadboy |
 | Endgame: Road To Salvation | · EA older | $11.99 | 156 97% | 4.7k | $56k (exactly $56,113) | Indie/Anon Games |
 | Boiling Point: Road to Hell | older | $9.99 | 127 72% | 3.8k | $38k (exactly $38,062) | Deep Shadows |
 | Driveloop: Survivors | · EA | $9.99 | 96 76% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $28,771) | Stunbyte |
 | RoadOut | $14.99 | 34 97% | 1.0k | $15k (exactly $15,290) | Rastrolabs Game Studio | |
 | THE DARK SIDE OF CECLON | $14.99 | 29 86% | 870 | $13k (exactly $13,041) | SOLIDS Studio | |
 | Combat Kart | $12.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $5.5k (exactly $5,456) | 01Game | |
 | Tornado Chaser | $9.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | maxdev | |
 | Hovercrafts x Nihilism | $6.00 | 22 86% | 660 | $4.0k (exactly $3,960) | soomr | |
 | Starfield Battlegrounds | $6.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) | 谭浩翔 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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