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Should I ship an Alien Driving game?
Driving + Aliens
Only 6 developers shipped an Alien Driving 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, DayOff: Moonriver incident, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $210 against a market of $630. 28 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $210 (exactly $210) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) |
| Top 5% | $4.8k (exactly $4,823) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- Driving
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 32% positive over 8,921 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 28 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Driving with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Split ScreenFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Survival HorrorFair
- + World War IIFair
- + MusicFair
- + ThrillerFair
- + Interactive FictionFair
- + LogicFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
Comparable games
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection 2024 · $7.5M 
Andarilho 2020 · $180k 
Switchcars 2021 · $44k 
Mugsters 2018 · $42k 
Manic Mechanics 2024 · $29k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection | older | $35.01 | 7,125 23% | 214k | $7.5M (exactly $7,483,388) | Aspyr |
| | Andarilho | older | $4.99 | 1,204 66% | 36k | $180k (exactly $180,239) | SC Jogos |
| | Switchcars | older | $8.99 | 164 90% | 4.9k | $44k (exactly $44,231) | Altfuture |
| | Mugsters | older | $19.99 | 70 67% | 2.1k | $42k (exactly $41,979) | Reinkout Games |
| | Manic Mechanics | older | $24.99 | 39 66% | 1.2k | $29k (exactly $29,238) | 4J Studios |
 | Resilience Wave Survival | older | $4.99 | 170 58% | 5.1k | $25k (exactly $25,449) | Jimbob Games |
 | Endless Suburbia | older | $4.99 | 91 64% | 2.7k | $14k (exactly $13,623) | Horrid Vision LLC |
 | Abducted: The Night Hunters | · EA older | $14.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $9.0k (exactly $8,994) | .Cat |
 | Timothy vs the Aliens | older | $16.99 | 15 73% | 450 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | WildSphere |
 | DayOff: Moonriver incident | $6.99 | 23 91% | 690 | $4.8k (exactly $4,823) | jetzackgames | |
 | Starfield Battlegrounds | $6.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) | 谭浩翔 | |
 | Car May Fly | · EA | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | carmayflystudio |
 | Atomic Cyclecar Racing 2 | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Studio Prime LLC | |
 | C64 & AMIGA Classix Remakes Sixpack 4 | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | magnussoft | |
 | A Bad Space Game | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | tobi02b |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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