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Should I ship a Runner Driving game?
Driving + Runner
Of 44 developers who shipped a Runner 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.. 54 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $89; 1 in 20 cleared $19k, ×30 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 54 games are announced against 20 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $89 (exactly $89) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) |
| Top 5% | $19k (exactly $19,095) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 44 |
| Released games | 161 |
| Announced | 54 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 70% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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, Runner; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Racing, Arcade, Simulation
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Relaxing, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 546 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $89. 9 in 10 of the 28 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 54 games are announced against 20 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
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
TrackDayR 2021 · EA · $1.7M 
Race The Sun 2013 · $592k 
Neon Drive 2016 · $499k 
Razortron 2000 2016 · $456k 
Neodash 2022 · $231k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | TrackDayR | · EA older | $24.99 | 2,213 86% | 66k | $1.7M (exactly $1,659,086) | MadCow S.r.l. |
| | Race The Sun | older | $9.99 | 1,974 93% | 59k | $592k (exactly $591,608) | Flippfly LLC |
| | 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 |
| | Neodash | older | $15.99 | 481 90% | 14k | $231k (exactly $230,736) | Axan Gray |
 | Buck Up And Drive! | older | $7.99 | 640 91% | 19k | $153k (exactly $153,408) | Fábio Fontes |
 | VR Skater | older | $19.99 | 222 86% | 6.7k | $133k (exactly $133,133) | DEFICIT Games |
 | Summer Catchers | older | $8.99 | 347 80% | 10k | $94k (exactly $93,586) | FaceIT |
 | [Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 | older | $4.99 | 431 80% | 13k | $65k (exactly $64,521) | Chilla's Art |
 | Hot Lap Racing | older | $29.99 | 51 64% | 1.5k | $46k (exactly $45,885) | Zero Games Studios |
 | Progress Racer RPG | $5.99 | 133 94% | 4.0k | $24k (exactly $23,900) | Cameron Ladjevardi, David Elliot | |
 | Ala Mobile | $14.99 | 43 74% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $19,337) | CVi Games | |
 | SCHROTT: Roguelike Racer | · EA | $12.99 | 49 91% | 1.5k | $19k (exactly $19,095) | Ivy Juice |
 | Moto Rush Reborn | $12.99 | 43 97% | 1.3k | $17k (exactly $16,757) | Baltoro Games | |
 | DRAFTYCAR 2 | · EA | $14.99 | 24 95% | 720 | $11k (exactly $10,793) | Speedway Labs |
 | Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game | · EA | $4.99 | 65 89% | 2.0k | $9.7k (exactly $9,730) | BiG INC. CO. LLC. |
 | Synthwave Driver | · EA | $2.99 | 107 86% | 3.2k | $9.6k (exactly $9,598) | Runebox Studios |
 | Synthwave Dream '85 | $3.99 | 48 100% | 1.4k | $5.7k (exactly $5,746) | LoneDev | |
 | ✈️Velocity Wings✈️ | $9.80 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.5k (exactly $3,528) | ZhiFeng Games | |
 | Florida Interstate '86 | $4.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Welcome to the '80s |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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