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Should I ship a Combat Racing Offroad game?
Offroad + Combat Racing
Only 12 developers shipped a Combat Racing Offroad 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, Recharge: Room Games, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 31 more are announced, ×5.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 31 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $240 (exactly $240) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,190) |
| Top 5% | $188k (exactly $187,706) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 31 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Offroad
- effort 7 / 10 · low · terrain and suspension physics
- Combat Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle physics plus weapons and AI drivers
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Offroad, Combat Racing
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 69% positive over 385 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 31 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Offroad with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + 3D PlatformerLong shot
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
- + SportsPoor odds
- + TransportationPoor odds
- + Automobile SimPoor odds
- + SimulationPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + NaturePoor odds
Comparable games
Need for Speed™ Payback 2020 · $25M 
FlatOut 2007 · $1.3M 
Crashday Redline Edition 2017 · $550k 
Arizona Derby 2019 · $342k 
Recharge: Room Games 2025 · EA · $188k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Need for Speed™ Payback | older | $29.99 | 27,424 85% | 823k | $25M (exactly $24,673,373) | Ghost Games |
| | FlatOut | older | $7.49 | 5,870 91% | 176k | $1.3M (exactly $1,318,989) | Bugbear Entertainment, ZOOM Platform Me… (Bugbear Entertainment, ZOOM Platform Media, Jordan Freeman Group) |
| | Crashday Redline Edition | older | $11.99 | 1,528 89% | 46k | $550k (exactly $549,622) | Moonbyte |
| | Arizona Derby | older | $18.99 | 601 77% | 18k | $342k (exactly $342,390) | Falcon Interactive |
| | Recharge: Room Games | · EA | $19.99 | 313 67% | 9.4k | $188k (exactly $187,706) | Room Games |
 | Crash Drive 2 | older | $4.99 | 1,040 90% | 31k | $156k (exactly $155,688) | M2H |
 | Crash Drive 3 | older | $19.99 | 219 93% | 6.6k | $131k (exactly $131,334) | M2H |
 | Super Toy Cars Offroad | older | $19.99 | 30 56% | 900 | $18k (exactly $17,991) | Eclipse Games |
 | RC Revolution | older | $14.99 | 39 69% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,538) | Phren Games |
 | Short Oval Simulator | · EA | $17.99 | 19 94% | 570 | $10k (exactly $10,254) | Dangerous Derk Interactive |
 | Chaos on Wheels | $9.99 | 34 67% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | Acodeon Development | |
 | Lawnmower Game Racing 2: Drunken | $1.99 | 15 73% | 450 | $896 (exactly $896) | Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software | |
 | Car Crash Chaos | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Berk Kalfa | |
 | Truck Titans | · EA | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Outlaw Games |
 | Valkeala Climb Race | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Valkeala Software, Tero Lunkka | |
 | Boom Gear | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Asyynk Studios | |
 | Buggy Racing Simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hard Shark Games |
 | Drift Off | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Riyadh Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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