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Should I ship a Vehicular Combat Action RPG?
Action RPG + Vehicular Combat
Only 19 developers shipped a Vehicular Combat 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, Pax Autocratica, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $630, ×0.4 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120. 33 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper, while revenue is up 1030% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $628 (exactly $628) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $15,290) |
| Top 5% | $2.9M (exactly $2,880,839) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $6.00 |
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 1030% on the market, supply 115% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, 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
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RPG, Vehicular Combat; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action Roguelike, RPG, Action
- Price point
- $6.00 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $6.00.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 4,264 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 33 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 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
Avorion 2020 · $9.7M 
Pax Autocratica 2026 · EA · $2.9M 
SAND LAND 2024 · $1.8M 
METAL MAX Xeno Reborn 2022 · $533k 
DuneCrawl 2026 · $341k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Avorion | older | $24.99 | 13,001 90% | 390k | $9.7M (exactly $9,746,850) | Boxelware |
| | Pax Autocratica | · EA | $29.99 | 3,202 91% | 96k | $2.9M (exactly $2,880,839) | Multiverse |
| | SAND LAND | older | $59.99 | 1,018 86% | 31k | $1.8M (exactly $1,832,095) | ILCA, Inc. |
| | METAL MAX Xeno Reborn | older | $39.99 | 444 65% | 13k | $533k (exactly $532,667) | 24Frame,inc. |
| | DuneCrawl | $19.99 | 568 74% | 17k | $341k (exactly $340,630) | Alientrap | |
 | Tankenstein | · EA | $17.99 | 238 89% | 7.1k | $128k (exactly $128,449) | Landship Games LTD |
 | Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess | older | $9.99 | 220 91% | 6.6k | $66k (exactly $65,934) | Pizza Bear Games |
 | Stonefly | older | $16.99 | 116 88% | 3.5k | $59k (exactly $59,125) | Flight School Studio |
 | 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 | |
 | Duneborn | $11.99 | 35 51% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,590) | A.P Games | |
 | Threads of War | $4.99 | 45 97% | 1.4k | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) | KoS | |
 | Agony Increment | $7.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $4.1k (exactly $4,075) | Parish Softworks | |
 | Hovercrafts x Nihilism | $6.00 | 22 86% | 660 | $4.0k (exactly $3,960) | soomr | |
 | Sail of Dreams | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | DreamDwarf |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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