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Should I ship a Collectathon Automobile Sim?
Automobile Sim + Collectathon
Only 14 developers shipped a Collectathon Automobile Sim 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, I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard), 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: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×0.8 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $270; 1 in 20 cleared $42k, ×29 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 12 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
| Top 25% | $4.7k (exactly $4,672) |
| Top 5% | $43k (exactly $42,867) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 down 70% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Automobile Sim
- effort 7 / 10 · low · tyre, suspension and drivetrain simulation
- Collectathon
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Automobile Sim, Collectathon; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Immersive Sim, Arcade
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $64.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, First-Person, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $64.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 208 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Automobile Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Split ScreenStrong odds
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + ZombiesFair
- + IdlerFair
- + LogicFair
- + Multiple EndingsLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
SimplePlanes 2015 · $3.8M 
Garbage Truck Simulator 2023 · $45k 
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard) 2026 · $43k 
Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs 2024 · $30k 
Train Plus Japan Drive Western Japan Trains! Rapid Service Edition 2026 · $27k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SimplePlanes | older | $12.99 | 9,811 93% | 294k | $3.8M (exactly $3,823,347) | Jundroo, LLC |
| | Garbage Truck Simulator | older | $8.99 | 166 71% | 5.0k | $45k (exactly $44,770) | Darius Bode |
| | I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard) | $12.99 | 110 82% | 3.3k | $43k (exactly $42,867) | GameFactory, Kai | |
| | Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs | $49.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $30k (exactly $29,994) | Sonic Powered Co.,Ltd. | |
| | Train Plus Japan Drive Western Japan Trains! Rapid Service Edition | $64.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $27k (exactly $27,296) | SHINISE GAMES, MFC STUDIO | |
 | Minit Fun Racer | older | $2.99 | 253 97% | 7.6k | $23k (exactly $22,694) | JW, Kitty, Jukio, Dom |
 | Space Ribbon - Slipstream to the Extreme | older | $3.99 | 71 57% | 2.1k | $8.5k (exactly $8,499) | Onteca Ltd |
 | AE86 EUROBEAT DRIFT | older | $9.99 | 27 88% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | deadworld games |
 | The Legend of Bear-Truck Trucker | older | $4.99 | 52 98% | 1.6k | $7.8k (exactly $7,784) | Captain Games |
 | Drift Phonk 666 | older | $0.99 | 245 89% | 7.4k | $7.3k (exactly $7,276) | deadworld games |
 | Sonar Scout | $5.99 | 26 100% | 780 | $4.7k (exactly $4,672) | Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose, Neil Do… (Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose, Neil Doppelmayr, Christoph Englert, Pontus Liljekvist, Hugo Roque) | |
 | 5番線おじさん救出編 Platform 5 Dungeons | $4.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | MFC STUDIO, KOSEI YASUDA, SHINISE GAMES | |
 | Evel Knievel | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Barnstorm Games | |
 | GMH - Good Morning Human ! | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | W-9000 Studio | |
 | Lawnmower game Ufo Chase 2 | $1.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $597 (exactly $597) | Valkeala Software | |
 | Rust Runners | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | Peter Shushmaruk | |
 | Rooooomba Simulator!! | $2.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Dream_Of_Guineapigs |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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