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Should I ship a Card Game Racing game?
Racing + Card Game
Only 11 developers shipped a Card Game 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, Supercar Collection Simulator, 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, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $0 in the last 2 years and $120 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 17 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $1.9k (exactly $1,915) |
| Top 5% | $595k (exactly $595,462) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 47 |
| Announced | 17 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Racing, Card Game
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 5 games average 85% positive over 1,560 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Supercar Collection Simulator 2025 · $595k 
Death Roads: Tournament 2023 · $328k 
The MoneyMakers Rallye 2020 · $10k 
Cycling Champion 2026 · EA · $3.5k 
Guess the Flag! 2024 · $1.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Supercar Collection Simulator | $12.99 | 1,528 85% | 46k | $595k (exactly $595,462) | Kiki Games | |
| | Death Roads: Tournament | older | $14.99 | 729 80% | 22k | $328k (exactly $327,831) | The Knights of Unity |
| | The MoneyMakers Rallye | older | $3.99 | 85 88% | 2.6k | $10k (exactly $10,174) | The Unknown Machine |
| | Cycling Champion | · EA | $8.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.5k (exactly $3,506) | RaulM |
| | Guess the Flag! | $3.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $1.9k (exactly $1,915) | Source Byte | |
 | CubeCubeRubik | older | $3.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | iceblue Studio |
 | Couch Racers | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Nico's Studio | |
 | Classic Card Game Mahjong | older | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Webfoot |
 | The last throne | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | SLW Game Studio | |
 | 我是熊孩子 | older | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | 白信鸽工作室 |
 | Surplus | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Song Jun | |
 | Equality | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Song Jun | |
 | Snail Mail | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | WASD Studios | |
 | Ephemeral | $59.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | sdaj | |
 | Inexorable | $54.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | sdaj |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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