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Should I ship a Quick-Time Events Driving game?
Driving + Quick-Time Events
Only 14 developers shipped a Quick-Time Events 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, Rally Arcade Classics, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $74k, ×119 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 14 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $539 (exactly $539) |
| Top 25% | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) |
| Top 5% | $75k (exactly $74,962) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 14 |
| 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 down 80% on the market, supply 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 29%, 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
- Quick-Time Events
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Driving, Quick-Time Events; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Racing, Adventure
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Colorful, Funny
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 162 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 10 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
- + Interactive FictionFair
- + LogicFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
Comparable games
反转21克 2024 · $275k 
Rally Arcade Classics 2024 · $75k 
Classic Racers Elite 2024 · $10k 
Bad Way 2022 · $9.3k 
Dr. Trolley's Problem 2019 · $4.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 反转21克 | older | $8.99 | 1,020 72% | 31k | $275k (exactly $275,094) | 想象颗粒 |
| | Rally Arcade Classics | $19.99 | 125 79% | 3.8k | $75k (exactly $74,962) | NETK2GAMES | |
| | Classic Racers Elite | older | $6.99 | 50 88% | 1.5k | $10k (exactly $10,485) | Vision Reelle |
| | Bad Way | older | $4.99 | 62 72% | 1.9k | $9.3k (exactly $9,281) | Montee Games |
| | Dr. Trolley's Problem | older | $4.99 | 31 54% | 930 | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) | Wero |
 | Truck Town: Kids and Toddlers Driving Game | $14.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Crater Studios | |
 | Car Guys | $5.99 | 9 33% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Ruben Alcañiz | |
 | City 33 | $15.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | ebt studios | |
 | Project SNAQE | older | $2.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $1.3k (exactly $1,256) | Teggno Interactive |
 | MORTEM | older | $1.99 | 15 46% | 450 | $896 (exactly $896) | Nighthood Games |
 | Co-Drive Chaos | $2.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | TURU Games | |
 | Tired | $8.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $539 (exactly $539) | EXHAUST3D | |
 | Sivar Race El Salvador | $8.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $539 (exactly $539) | ENA Studios SV, C. Eduardo Nuñez U. | |
 | Cartel | $15.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | ren studios | |
 | Tropical Hop | $15.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | cls studios | |
 | Vortha racing | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | GM hack |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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