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Should I ship a Combat Racing Real Time Tactics?
Combat Racing + Real Time Tactics
Only 6 developers shipped a Combat Racing Real Time Tactics 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, Dust Raiders, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×7.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $360 against a market of $630. 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $356 (exactly $356) |
| Top 25% | $897 (exactly $897) |
| Top 5% | $77k (exactly $76,752) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $3.00 |
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 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, 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
- Real Time Tactics
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Combat Racing, Real Time Tactics
- Price point
- $3.00 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 $15.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 338 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. 15 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.5 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
Dust Raiders 2025 · $77k 
惊险极速 2021 · EA · $19k 
BeachRun 2022 · $8.2k 
KEO 2021 · EA · $8.1k 
SaberStyle 2022 · $1.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dust Raiders | $15.99 | 160 64% | 4.8k | $77k (exactly $76,752) | Vixa Games | |
| | 惊险极速 | · EA older | $6.99 | 91 97% | 2.7k | $19k (exactly $19,083) | 个人 |
| | BeachRun | older | $24.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $8.2k (exactly $8,247) | Gamesforgames |
| | KEO | · EA older | $9.99 | 27 74% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Redcatpig Studio |
| | SaberStyle | older | $5.99 | 10 40% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | Lucky Cat studio |
 | RC Death Race: Multiplayer | older | $2.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Decebal Games Studio |
 | Premier Servi | $2.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | Florent Baris, Gaspard Thirion, Mickaël… (Florent Baris, Gaspard Thirion, Mickaël Scherlen) | |
 | Sky Mad | older | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Radical Play LLC |
 | 两体 | · EA older | $5.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | 魔书科技 |
 | Curvelicious | $0.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $356 (exactly $356) | Filip Strelec | |
 | Niut | $3.00 | 2 50% | 60 | $180 (exactly $180) | AF Works ® | |
 | Masters of the Air | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | THE POWER OF GAMES | |
 | Cyber Bike Duels | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Bashabeth Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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