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Should I ship an Interactive Fiction Driving game?
Driving + Interactive Fiction
Only 12 developers shipped an Interactive Fiction Driving 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, Easy Delivery Co., made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $240. Revenue is up 45% on the market; 13 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,343) |
| Top 5% | $3.7M (exactly $3,716,959) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 45% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Interactive Fiction
- effort 1 / 10 · high · prose plus a state machine
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Driving, Interactive Fiction
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 9,648 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Driving with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Split ScreenFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Survival HorrorFair
- + World War IIFair
- + MusicFair
- + ThrillerFair
- + LogicFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + TrainsPoor odds
Comparable games
Easy Delivery Co. 2025 · $3.7M 
Caravan SandWitch 2024 · $2.1M 
Heading Out 2024 · $383k 
反转21克 2024 · $275k 
[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 2021 · $65k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Easy Delivery Co. | $12.99 | 9,538 95% | 286k | $3.7M (exactly $3,716,959) | Sam C | |
| | Caravan SandWitch | older | $24.99 | 2,797 88% | 84k | $2.1M (exactly $2,096,911) | Studio Plane Toast |
| | Heading Out | older | $19.99 | 639 74% | 19k | $383k (exactly $383,208) | Serious Sim, Crunching Koalas |
| | 反转21克 | older | $8.99 | 1,020 72% | 31k | $275k (exactly $275,094) | 想象颗粒 |
| | [Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 | older | $4.99 | 431 80% | 13k | $65k (exactly $64,521) | Chilla's Art |
 | Wheels of Aurelia | older | $14.99 | 135 49% | 4.1k | $61k (exactly $60,710) | Santa Ragione |
 | Night Bus | older | $4.99 | 260 87% | 7.8k | $39k (exactly $38,922) | Liquid Static Studio |
 | Hazeron Starship | older | $19.99 | 55 70% | 1.7k | $33k (exactly $32,984) | Hazeron Freehold LLC |
 | Firebird | older | $11.99 | 68 100% | 2.0k | $24k (exactly $24,460) | Ludogram, FibreTigre, Quentin Vijoux |
 | Sunbay City Stories: Tina from the Grand Auto Workshop | $19.99 | 31 51% | 930 | $19k (exactly $18,591) | RWB | |
 | Alter Evo | $14.99 | 23 95% | 690 | $10k (exactly $10,343) | Technical Fiction | |
 | Frog Bard | $2.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) | Moon Candy | |
 | Echo Wars - Road Rage | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Ivanovich Games | |
 | Sunset Drive | $3.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | Klapanom Games | |
 | Victor Lawson | $3.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | 1tempobro | |
 | Misery Avenue | $3.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | Miseryous Games | |
 | Vice Thief Simulator: 80s Nostalgia | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Oddi Tycoon |
 | Coaching Simulator | · EA | $1.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Anopia Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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