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Should I ship an Automation Racing game?
Automation + Racing
Only 11 developers shipped an Automation Racing 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, SimplePlanes 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×3.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $450. Revenue is up 6640% on the market; 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) |
| Top 25% | $31k (exactly $31,468) |
| Top 5% | $789k (exactly $789,205) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 12 |
| 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 up 6640% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Automation
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle handling, track content and opponent AI
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Automation, Racing
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 86% positive over 2,053 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Automation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + Female ProtagonistStrong odds
- + Open World Survival CraftFair
- + HorrorFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + Class-BasedFair
- + MiningFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + FishingFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
Comparable games
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game 2015 · EA · $15M 
SimplePlanes 2015 · $3.8M 
KartKraft™ 2018 · $2.2M 
SimplePlanes 2 2026 · EA · $789k 
Wreckreation 2025 · $432k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game | · EA older | $29.99 | 16,815 93% | 504k | $15M (exactly $15,128,456) | Camshaft Software Ltd |
| | SimplePlanes | older | $12.99 | 9,811 93% | 294k | $3.8M (exactly $3,823,347) | Jundroo, LLC |
| | KartKraft™ | older | $24.99 | 2,987 73% | 90k | $2.2M (exactly $2,239,354) | Motorsport Games |
| | SimplePlanes 2 | · EA | $19.99 | 1,316 92% | 39k | $789k (exactly $789,205) | Jundroo, LLC |
| | Wreckreation | $39.99 | 360 63% | 11k | $432k (exactly $431,892) | Three Fields Entertainment | |
 | Rush Rally Origins | older | $14.99 | 306 95% | 9.2k | $138k (exactly $137,608) | Brownmonster Limited |
 | Cozy Marbles | $9.99 | 105 96% | 3.2k | $31k (exactly $31,468) | Pixel Pea Games | |
 | Parcel Delivery Simulator | $6.99 | 114 61% | 3.4k | $24k (exactly $23,906) | Digital Melody | |
 | Progress Racer RPG | $5.99 | 133 94% | 4.0k | $24k (exactly $23,900) | Cameron Ladjevardi, David Elliot | |
 | Duck Race | · EA older | $11.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.6k (exactly $3,597) | Ibzy Studios |
 | Chat Ragdoll Racing | · EA | $4.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Scuffed Gamedev, Samuli Salonen, Marcus… (Scuffed Gamedev, Samuli Salonen, Marcus Rose) |
 | MADNESS | $3.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | Limebat Games | |
 | Chimera Circuit | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | BLYTHE | |
 | Random Horse Derby | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Kornux Games | |
 | Go Marbles! | · EA | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Aaron Balint |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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