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Should I ship a Robot Driving game?
Driving + Robots
Only 8 developers shipped a Robot 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, Robot Detour, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.1k against a market of $630. 24 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 5% | $31k (exactly $31,268) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 24 |
| 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 30% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 21%, 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
- $7.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 45% positive over 11,086 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 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
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection 2024 · $7.5M 
Caravan SandWitch 2024 · $2.1M 
Homebrew - Patent Unknown 2014 · EA · $372k 
Robot Detour 2024 · $31k 
World of Contraptions 2022 · $27k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection | older | $35.01 | 7,125 23% | 214k | $7.5M (exactly $7,483,388) | Aspyr |
| | Caravan SandWitch | older | $24.99 | 2,797 88% | 84k | $2.1M (exactly $2,096,911) | Studio Plane Toast |
| | Homebrew - Patent Unknown | · EA older | $14.99 | 828 71% | 25k | $372k (exactly $372,352) | Copybugpaste |
| | Robot Detour | $5.99 | 174 100% | 5.2k | $31k (exactly $31,268) | Nozomu Games | |
| | World of Contraptions | older | $9.99 | 89 86% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,673) | JCP Games Studio |
 | Mars Rover Simulator | older | $19.99 | 24 25% | 720 | $14k (exactly $14,393) | DexterCoding |
 | A Day of Maintenance | older | $19.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $13k (exactly $12,594) | bighandinsky |
 | Open Robot | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Loomeit Studios | |
 | CuberPunk 2090 | older | $12.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $3.1k (exactly $3,118) | Brouillard |
 | PizzaPanic | $8.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Catnip Lab | |
 | Highway Hijinks | · EA older | $9.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Ode Software |
 | Anarchy Road | $5.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | Bunker Brothers LLC | |
 | Careening | · EA | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Sean N Richardson |
 | The Great Ocean | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Actrio Studio | |
 | Chernobots | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Sportz League | |
 | Tank Busters | · EA | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | tankotableat |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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