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Should I ship an Adventure Cycling game?
Cycling + Adventure
Only 14 developers shipped an Adventure Cycling 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, MAVRIX by Matt Jones, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.1k, ×9.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.1k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.1M, ×1851 the market median. Revenue is up 15% on the market; 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.0k (exactly $1,008) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.1k (exactly $6,120) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $29,042) |
| Top 5% | $1.2M (exactly $1,162,509) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 20 |
| 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: revenue up 15% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Cycling, Adventure
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 2,601 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.1k. 6 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Cycling with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
Comparable games
MAVRIX by Matt Jones 2026 · $1.2M 
Pro Cycling Manager 25 2025 · $595k 
Wheel World 2025 · $441k 
Fears to Fathom - Carson House 2023 · $414k 
Pro Cycling Manager 2024 2024 · $408k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | MAVRIX by Matt Jones | $39.99 | 969 80% | 29k | $1.2M (exactly $1,162,509) | Third Kind Games | |
| | Pro Cycling Manager 25 | $39.99 | 496 75% | 15k | $595k (exactly $595,051) | Cyanide Studio | |
| | Wheel World | $19.99 | 735 90% | 22k | $441k (exactly $440,779) | Messhof | |
| | Fears to Fathom - Carson House | older | $4.99 | 2,764 91% | 83k | $414k (exactly $413,771) | Rayll |
| | Pro Cycling Manager 2024 | older | $39.99 | 340 81% | 10k | $408k (exactly $407,898) | Cyanide Studio |
 | Pro Cycling Manager 2014 | older | $9.99 | 225 64% | 6.8k | $67k (exactly $67,432) | Cyanide Studio |
 | BIKEOUT | older | $24.99 | 75 42% | 2.3k | $56k (exactly $56,228) | Black Swan |
 | Draw Rider | older | $9.99 | 130 70% | 3.9k | $39k (exactly $38,961) | 17Studio |
 | Unicycle Together | $4.99 | 194 89% | 5.8k | $29k (exactly $29,042) | Eneskp, Yusuf Demirhan | |
 | Parcel Corps | $7.99 | 116 62% | 3.5k | $28k (exactly $27,805) | Billy Goat Entertainment Ltd | |
 | WATTGAMES | · EA | $24.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $9.7k (exactly $9,746) | TripleScience Software |
 | CYCLE | $12.00 | 17 100% | 510 | $6.1k (exactly $6,120) | DVTZR | |
 | Tiny Whiny Island | $3.99 | 35 85% | 1.1k | $4.2k (exactly $4,190) | Marshlander Games | |
 | pedalverse | $4.99 | 14 42% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | FuristicStudio | |
 | Ride It! | $2.80 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.0k (exactly $1,008) | dpm, Revi, GatoHolguera |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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