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Should I ship an Arcade Snowboarding game?
Snowboarding + Arcade
Only 9 developers shipped an Arcade Snowboarding 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, Tricky Madness, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $600 against a market of $630. 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) |
| Top 5% | $99k (exactly $98,756) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Snowboarding
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Arcade
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Snowboarding, Arcade
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $17.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 5,960 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Snowboarding with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
Comparable games
Shredders 2022 · $3.4M 
The Ramp 2021 · $198k 
The Fancy Pants Adventures: Classic Pack 2024 · EA · $124k 
Tricky Madness 2024 · EA · $99k 
Slopecrashers 2024 · $44k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Shredders | older | $29.99 | 3,818 94% | 115k | $3.4M (exactly $3,435,055) | FoamPunch |
| | The Ramp | older | $5.99 | 1,104 95% | 33k | $198k (exactly $198,389) | Paul Schnepf |
| | The Fancy Pants Adventures: Classic Pack | · EA older | $9.99 | 414 84% | 12k | $124k (exactly $124,076) | Borne Games |
| | Tricky Madness | · EA | $7.99 | 412 95% | 12k | $99k (exactly $98,756) | Nathan Dearth |
| | Slopecrashers | $17.99 | 82 93% | 2.5k | $44k (exactly $44,255) | byteparrot | |
 | hoVRboard | older | $11.99 | 33 93% | 990 | $12k (exactly $11,870) | TomyHorst |
 | Winter Games 2023 | older | $9.99 | 38 65% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $11,389) | Independent Arts Software GmbH |
 | Down Fast VR | · EA older | $11.99 | 18 27% | 540 | $6.5k (exactly $6,475) | HomeBrewGames |
 | Kiteboarding Pro | older | $9.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | Sideways GameStudio |
 | Traction Control | · EA older | $4.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Mitchell Lawrence |
 | SantaCorps 4 | $4.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | Virtuoso Neomedia | |
 | Snowboard League | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | SirDiabo | |
 | Hydrofoil Surfing | $4.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Nightwork Studios | |
 | Space Punk | · EA | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | ShyneB0X Studios |
 | Gob Johnson's Downhill Marmalade | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | tophatsquid games | |
 | Yeti Ski | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | RetroBug | |
 | Slide Faster | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Puzzle Drop Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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