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Should I ship a Combat Racing Survival game?
Combat Racing + Survival
Only 10 developers shipped a Combat Racing Survival 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, Carmageddon: Rogue Shift, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×4.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.6k, ×5.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $900k, ×1437 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 32 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $356 (exactly $356) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.6k (exactly $3,588) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $12,590) |
| Top 5% | $902k (exactly $902,174) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 60 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 down 70% on the market, supply 135% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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
- Survival
- 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, Survival
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 69% positive over 1,033 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 32 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.6 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
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Split ScreenPoor odds
- + Local MultiplayerPoor odds
Comparable games
Carmageddon: Rogue Shift 2026 · $902k 
Crashday Redline Edition 2017 · $550k 
Bloody Rally Show 2020 · $149k 
Space Wars 2020 · $95k 
CyberTaxi 2020 · $53k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Carmageddon: Rogue Shift | $39.99 | 752 62% | 23k | $902k (exactly $902,174) | 34BigThings srl | |
| | Crashday Redline Edition | older | $11.99 | 1,528 89% | 46k | $550k (exactly $549,622) | Moonbyte |
| | Bloody Rally Show | older | $19.99 | 248 89% | 7.4k | $149k (exactly $148,726) | Kodo Linija |
| | Space Wars | older | $29.99 | 106 86% | 3.2k | $95k (exactly $95,368) | High and Wide |
| | CyberTaxi | older | $9.99 | 178 64% | 5.3k | $53k (exactly $53,347) | Projects from Basement |
 | Nautical Survival | $7.99 | 179 97% | 5.4k | $43k (exactly $42,906) | Idan Rooze | |
 | Tinker Racers | older | $4.99 | 194 84% | 5.8k | $29k (exactly $29,042) | Rumbora Party Games |
 | Wasteland Angel | older | $4.99 | 135 56% | 4.1k | $20k (exactly $20,210) | Octane Games |
 | J15 Jet Fighter VR (歼15舰载机) | · EA older | $9.99 | 44 47% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Magicvalley Studio |
 | Duneborn | $11.99 | 35 51% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,590) | A.P Games | |
 | LivingForest | $15.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $3.8k (exactly $3,838) | LivingEveryday | |
 | GOVNOVOZ | $2.99 | 40 95% | 1.2k | $3.6k (exactly $3,588) | KaiserGames | |
 | Drift Survivors | $2.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Kickflip Games | |
 | Curvelicious | $0.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $356 (exactly $356) | Filip Strelec | |
 | Deathrun | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Inonia Games | |
 | City-Racing | $24.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Anton Opic | |
 | Ultra's Drive | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ultraedge |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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