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Should I ship a Female-Led Driving game?
Driving + Female Protagonist
Of 21 developers who shipped a Female-Led Driving game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 40 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.0k, ×3.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.3k; 1 in 20 cleared $200k, ×328 the market median. Revenue is up 335% on the market; 40 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.3k (exactly $1,256) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.0k (exactly $1,973) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $15,290) |
| Top 5% | $206k (exactly $205,894) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 21 |
| Released games | 67 |
| Announced | 40 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 up 335% on the market, supply 10% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Driving
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle handling feel is tuned by hand
- Female Protagonist
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Driving; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Exploration, Racing
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, First-Person, 1990's
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 6,888 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.3k. 7 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 40 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Driving with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Split ScreenFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Survival HorrorFair
- + World War IIFair
- + MusicFair
- + ThrillerFair
- + Interactive FictionFair
- + LogicFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
Comparable games
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Construction Simulator 2022 · $8.0M 
Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered 2021 · $3.6M 
Lake 2021 · $2.7M 
ContractVille 2025 · $1.7M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cloudpunk | older | $19.99 | 13,788 87% | 414k | $8.3M (exactly $8,268,664) | ION LANDS |
| | Construction Simulator | older | $24.99 | 10,606 82% | 318k | $8.0M (exactly $7,951,318) | weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbH |
| | Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered | older | $29.99 | 3,968 73% | 119k | $3.6M (exactly $3,570,010) | Deep Silver Volition, Sperasoft |
| | Lake | older | $19.99 | 4,484 87% | 135k | $2.7M (exactly $2,689,055) | Gamious |
| | ContractVille | $9.99 | 5,593 80% | 168k | $1.7M (exactly $1,676,222) | MYM Games Studios | |
 | Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway | older | $9.99 | 3,470 86% | 104k | $1.0M (exactly $1,039,959) | Rayll Studios |
 | Lost | older | $2.50 | 7,423 80% | 223k | $557k (exactly $556,725) | DSGame |
 | Carmageddon Max Pack | older | $9.99 | 713 85% | 21k | $214k (exactly $213,686) | Stainless Games Ltd |
 | Backseat Drivers | $9.99 | 687 78% | 21k | $206k (exactly $205,894) | GhostJam Games, Deadcat Studios | |
 | Shady Lewd Kart | · EA older | $19.99 | 259 86% | 7.8k | $155k (exactly $155,322) | Shady Corner Games |
 | Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! | $19.99 | 238 83% | 7.1k | $143k (exactly $142,729) | Strange Scaffold | |
 | Rally Arcade Classics | $19.99 | 125 79% | 3.8k | $75k (exactly $74,962) | NETK2GAMES | |
 | Terrors to Unveil - Day Off | $4.99 | 105 68% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,718) | Psycho | |
 | RoadOut | $14.99 | 34 97% | 1.0k | $15k (exactly $15,290) | Rastrolabs Game Studio | |
 | Super Night Riders S1 | $9.99 | 47 95% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,086) | miyu.works | |
 | Big Mutha Truckers | $8.99 | 39 92% | 1.2k | $11k (exactly $10,518) | Eutechnyx | |
 | Ed & Edda: GRAND PRIX – Racing Champions | $39.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $4.8k (exactly $4,799) | Tivola Games GmbH, Funatics Software | |
 | No Knock | $9.99 | 16 50% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | No Knock |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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