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Should I ship a Music Driving game?
Driving + Music
Only 8 developers shipped a Music 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, Synthwave Driver, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.4k, ×3.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $600. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,352) |
| Top 25% | $6.6k (exactly $6,555) |
| Top 5% | $9.6k (exactly $9,598) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 down 25% on the market, supply 65% more developers than 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.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Driving
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 98,749 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Driving with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Split ScreenFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Survival HorrorFair
- + World War IIFair
- + ThrillerFair
- + Interactive FictionFair
- + LogicFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + TrainsPoor odds
Comparable games
Need for Speed™ Unbound 2022 · $105M 
Mafia II (Classic) 2011 · $33M 
Crashday Redline Edition 2017 · $550k 
Neon Drive 2016 · $499k 
Razortron 2000 2016 · $456k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Need for Speed™ Unbound | older | $69.99 | 49,862 61% | 1.5M | $105M (exactly $104,695,241) | Criterion Games |
| | Mafia II (Classic) | older | $29.99 | 36,389 92% | 1.1M | $33M (exactly $32,739,183) | 2K Czech |
| | Crashday Redline Edition | older | $11.99 | 1,528 89% | 46k | $550k (exactly $549,622) | Moonbyte |
| | Neon Drive | older | $9.99 | 1,664 86% | 50k | $499k (exactly $498,701) | Fraoula, Spiky Crumb |
| | Razortron 2000 | older | $4.99 | 3,045 86% | 91k | $456k (exactly $455,836) | NukGames |
 | OutDrive | older | $2.99 | 3,625 78% | 109k | $325k (exactly $325,162) | DNVR Prod |
 | Slipstream | older | $9.99 | 971 91% | 29k | $291k (exactly $291,009) | ansdor |
 | Neodash | older | $15.99 | 481 90% | 14k | $231k (exactly $230,736) | Axan Gray |
 | Titan Chaser | older | $4.99 | 1,000 82% | 30k | $150k (exactly $149,700) | Stas Shostak |
 | Top Racer Collection | older | $19.99 | 184 88% | 5.5k | $110k (exactly $110,345) | QUByte Interactive |
 | Synthwave Driver | · EA | $2.99 | 107 86% | 3.2k | $9.6k (exactly $9,598) | Runebox Studios |
 | Streaming Race | $11.50 | 19 73% | 570 | $6.6k (exactly $6,555) | Miranda Studios | |
 | Neon Highways | $5.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Flowbit Studio | |
 | Miami Horizon 2077 | $4.90 | 16 75% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,352) | CJ | |
 | Retrowave Barro Crazy Drift | $15.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $959 (exactly $959) | thinfat | |
 | Music Drive: Chase the Beat | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Salve Games | |
 | Vibe City Islands Architect | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Day 1 to 100 | |
 | Gut Grease | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Michael Medearis |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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