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Should I ship a Racing Action RTS?
Action RTS + Racing
Only 5 developers shipped a Racing Action RTS 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, Car Factory Empire, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $0 against a market of $1.5k. 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $5.3k (exactly $5,277) |
| Top 5% | $13k (exactly $12,946) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action RTS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle handling, track content and opponent AI
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS, Racing
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 7 games average 61% positive over 70 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action RTS with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + FPSLong shot
- + PuzzleLong shot
- + Turn-Based StrategyPoor odds
- + Turn-Based TacticsPoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + Grand StrategyPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
Comparable games
Car Factory Empire 2025 · EA · $13k 
Just Move:Clean City Messy Battle 2025 · $5.3k 
Ancient Demon Shadow 2024 · $419 
Pirate Runner 2023 · $299 
Fastraq 2022 · $150 | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Car Factory Empire | · EA | $8.99 | 48 56% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $12,946) | RDS Games |
| | Just Move:Clean City Messy Battle | $15.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $5.3k (exactly $5,277) | daminggede | |
| | Ancient Demon Shadow | older | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | WJLE |
| | Pirate Runner | older | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | WGI GAMING |
| | Fastraq | older | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Rahul Khanna |
 | Retrolution Racing | older | $0.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | Gabriel Almeida |
 | ReBullet | older | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | KAI's CAT |
 | Interpret | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 臻新 | |
 | Pernicious | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | sdaj | |
 | Rush or Die | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 朱莹 | |
 | Moyu world | older | $29.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | wu shirong |
 | Hurricane | older | $34.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hurricane |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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