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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Combat Racing game?
Combat Racing + Procedural Generation
Only 12 developers shipped a Procedural Generation Combat 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, REDLINE CROOKS, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×5.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $210; 1 in 20 cleared $26k, ×42 the market median. Revenue is down 35% on the market; 33 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) |
| Top 5% | $26k (exactly $26,258) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 55 |
| Announced | 33 |
| 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 down 35% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Combat Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle physics plus weapons and AI drivers
- Procedural Generation
- 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
- Combat Racing, Procedural Generation
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 165 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 33 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Combat Racing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + CollectathonFair
- + SandboxFair
- + PlatformerFair
- + RhythmFair
- + ParkourFair
- + RPGFair
- + 2D PlatformerLong shot
- + Beat 'em upLong shot
- + SurvivalPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Split ScreenPoor odds
Comparable games
Death Roads: Tournament 2023 · $328k 
Buck Up And Drive! 2022 · $153k 
Gearshifters 2021 · $64k 
REDLINE CROOKS 2024 · $26k 
Dryft City Kyngs 2024 · $18k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Death Roads: Tournament | older | $14.99 | 729 80% | 22k | $328k (exactly $327,831) | The Knights of Unity |
| | Buck Up And Drive! | older | $7.99 | 640 91% | 19k | $153k (exactly $153,408) | Fábio Fontes |
| | Gearshifters | older | $24.99 | 85 80% | 2.6k | $64k (exactly $63,724) | Red Phantom Games |
| | REDLINE CROOKS | $11.99 | 73 100% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $26,258) | Alexander Golke | |
| | Dryft City Kyngs | older | $20.00 | 30 100% | 900 | $18k (exactly $18,000) | magicdweedoo, Nonsense Machine |
 | Lost Wing | older | $7.99 | 54 72% | 1.6k | $13k (exactly $12,944) | BoxFrog Games |
 | PalmRide | older | $3.99 | 108 87% | 3.2k | $13k (exactly $12,928) | Pixelbois |
 | Speed Demons 2 | $14.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $12k (exactly $11,692) | Radiangames | |
 | Hypertrain | older | $8.99 | 41 75% | 1.2k | $11k (exactly $11,058) | Funcraft Games |
 | Witch Epoch | older | $24.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | PULLBACK RACERS | $3.99 | 39 94% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | SkyBrave, blazitt, Gevizz | |
 | Miner Hoversurf 2 Multiplayer Madness | $4.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Sinned Games | |
 | Banana Blitz | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Sleeper Build Studio | |
 | Leap Of Faith | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Whoopsy | |
 | Tri6: Infinite 2 | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Clockwork Origins | |
 | 星界远航 Stellar Realm Voyage | · EA | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | SGAIZFTX |
 | Undead Tread | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Fletcher Poole | |
 | GLYPHORA | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Hardly Orange |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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