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Should I ship a Beat 'em up Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Beat 'em up
Only 9 developers shipped a Beat 'em up 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, REDLINE CROOKS, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $300 against a market of $630. 13 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) |
| Top 5% | $26k (exactly $26,258) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 615% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Beat 'em up
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Vehicular Combat, Beat 'em up
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $7.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 15,277 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
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- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
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Gimbal 2013 · $58k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Road Redemption | older | $19.99 | 10,842 83% | 325k | $6.5M (exactly $6,501,947) | Redemption Road, Pixel Dash Studios |
| | SAND LAND | older | $59.99 | 1,018 86% | 31k | $1.8M (exactly $1,832,095) | ILCA, Inc. |
| | Insect Swarm | older | $6.99 | 2,491 84% | 75k | $522k (exactly $522,363) | Parallel Portal |
| | Buck Up And Drive! | older | $7.99 | 640 91% | 19k | $153k (exactly $153,408) | Fábio Fontes |
| | Gimbal | older | $14.99 | 130 79% | 3.9k | $58k (exactly $58,461) | 8888888 LABS |
 | REDLINE CROOKS | $11.99 | 73 100% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $26,258) | Alexander Golke | |
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 | Doom Drive | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Berk Kalfa | |
 | Roads of Rage | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Harness Games | |
 | Boom Gear | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Asyynk Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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