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Should I ship a Combat Racing Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Combat Racing
Only 14 developers shipped a Combat Racing Battle Royale 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, Code Velocity, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 10 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×0.5 the market's $1.3k for a 10 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240. 32 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper, while revenue is up 10% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) |
| Top 5% | $8.9k (exactly $8,880) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 58 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 10 / 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 up 10% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Battle Royale
- effort 10 / 10 · low · 100-player servers and constant live ops
- Combat Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle physics plus weapons and AI drivers
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, Combat Racing; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Racing, Action, Online Co-Op
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $15.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cartoony, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $15.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 152 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. All of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 32 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MysteryLong shot
- + LootPoor odds
- + SportsPoor odds
- + Hero ShooterPoor odds
- + PuzzlePoor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + Dungeon CrawlerPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + 4 Player LocalPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
Comparable games
GENSOU Skydrift 2019 · $404k 
Shipped 2019 · $175k 
Hashiriya Drifter-Online Drift Racing Multiplayer (DRIFT/DRAG/RACING) 2020 · $80k 
Perfect Partner 2023 · $29k 
惊险极速 2021 · EA · $19k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | GENSOU Skydrift | older | $23.99 | 561 88% | 17k | $404k (exactly $403,752) | illuCalab |
| | Shipped | older | $9.99 | 584 96% | 18k | $175k (exactly $175,025) | Majorariatto |
| | Hashiriya Drifter-Online Drift Racing Multiplayer (DRIFT/DRAG/RACING) | older | $1.99 | 1,337 68% | 40k | $80k (exactly $79,819) | Midnight Games |
| | Perfect Partner | older | $8.99 | 107 79% | 3.2k | $29k (exactly $28,858) | RD Studio |
| | 惊险极速 | · EA older | $6.99 | 91 97% | 2.7k | $19k (exactly $19,083) | 个人 |
 | Code Velocity | $2.99 | 99 100% | 3.0k | $8.9k (exactly $8,880) | STIM GAMES | |
 | Zaacar | · EA older | $11.99 | 13 38% | 390 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | Axoora |
 | Chasers Dash & Bash | $9.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Flipstar | |
 | CD-RUN | older | $9.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Quack Quack Games |
 | Just Move Fall Dungeon Endless Abyss | $15.99 | 8 50% | 240 | $3.8k (exactly $3,838) | daminggede | |
 | Car Guys | $5.99 | 9 33% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Ruben Alcañiz | |
 | Carnage Battle Arena | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Boombit | |
 | Stealth Syndicate | $3.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | Vincent Lopes-Vicente | |
 | SUPER MARKET | $5.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | Spectacularly Obsolete Logic Operations… (Spectacularly Obsolete Logic Operations: Glitchy Applications Marvelously Executed Shoddily) | |
 | Bumper Brawlers | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Gyxos | |
 | Delivery Service : Courier | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | DW | |
 | BIG BALLS | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | BIG BALL |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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