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Should I ship an Auto Battler Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Auto Battler
Only 9 developers shipped an Auto Battler Vehicular Combat 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, Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $12k, ×20 the market median. Revenue is down 30% on the market; 17 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 5% | $13k (exactly $12,594) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 30% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Auto Battler
- 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
- Vehicular Combat, Auto Battler
- 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 4,561 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 17 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Looter ShooterFair
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
Warpips 2022 · $2.2M 
Super Toy Cars Offroad 2022 · $18k 
1 Million Zombies 2023 · $18k 
Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights 2025 · $13k 
Rude Racers: 2D Combat Racing 2020 · $3.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Warpips | older | $16.99 | 4,339 87% | 130k | $2.2M (exactly $2,211,588) | Skirmish Mode Games |
| | Super Toy Cars Offroad | older | $19.99 | 30 56% | 900 | $18k (exactly $17,991) | Eclipse Games |
| | 1 Million Zombies | older | $9.99 | 60 90% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,982) | Chubby Kiwi Games |
| | Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights | $19.99 | 21 61% | 630 | $13k (exactly $12,594) | Gunpowder Games, Focuspoint Studios | |
| | Rude Racers: 2D Combat Racing | older | $1.99 | 56 78% | 1.7k | $3.3k (exactly $3,343) | Famous Dogg Studios |
 | Tank Zombie Smasher | older | $4.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | SimpleSoft |
 | Clank-Robotics | $6.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Clank Studios | |
 | Battlegrounds : At Enemy Gates | older | $19.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | SmartOliveGames Ltd |
 | Armada: Last Light | $9.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Brock Pivirotto | |
 | RC Death Race: Multiplayer | older | $2.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Decebal Games Studio |
 | Anarchy Road | $5.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | Bunker Brothers LLC | |
 | Dwarven Rails | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Kogekisaru | |
 | FLAAK TD | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Oedipe Games, Oedipe Games | |
 | CLAW - Cosmic Legendary Animal Warfare | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Erik Jäckel |
 | Daily War Online | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Xorbis | |
 | Rogue Circuit | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jorge Francisco Bescos Gascon |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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