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Should I ship a Visual Novel Driving game?
Driving + Visual Novel
Only 11 developers shipped a Visual Novel 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, Promise Mascot Agency, 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, ×14 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.4k against a market of $630. 14 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $748 (exactly $748) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,435) |
| Top 25% | $162k (exactly $161,935) |
| Top 5% | $1.9M (exactly $1,925,979) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 14 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 90% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, 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
- Visual Novel
- effort 2 / 10 · high · script, choices and static art
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Driving, Visual Novel
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 4,030 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $750. 6 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×14 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
Promise Mascot Agency 2025 · $1.9M 
Lost 2019 · $557k 
Race of Life - Act 1 2025 · $497k 
Heading Out 2024 · $383k 
反转21克 2024 · $275k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Promise Mascot Agency | $24.99 | 2,569 96% | 77k | $1.9M (exactly $1,925,979) | Kaizen Game Works | |
| | Lost | older | $2.50 | 7,423 80% | 223k | $557k (exactly $556,725) | DSGame |
| | Race of Life - Act 1 | $13.99 | 1,183 94% | 35k | $497k (exactly $496,505) | Underground Studio | |
| | 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 |
 | Garfield Kart 2 - All You Can Drift | $24.99 | 216 45% | 6.5k | $162k (exactly $161,935) | Eden Games | |
 | Wheels of Aurelia | older | $14.99 | 135 49% | 4.1k | $61k (exactly $60,710) | Santa Ragione |
 | Hot & Lewd: Miami | older | $9.99 | 98 84% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $29,371) | Lust Desires 🖤 |
 | Firebird | older | $11.99 | 68 100% | 2.0k | $24k (exactly $24,460) | Ludogram, FibreTigre, Quentin Vijoux |
 | HeatStroke | older | $1.99 | 199 89% | 6.0k | $12k (exactly $11,880) | Talia bob Mair, Matt Garnett, Braden Ba… (Talia bob Mair, Matt Garnett, Braden Banning) |
 | Designated Driver Simulator | · EA | $17.99 | 16 62% | 480 | $8.6k (exactly $8,635) | PostSIM |
 | Truck Town: Kids and Toddlers Driving Game | $14.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Crater Studios | |
 | Дейтсим Говна | $2.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $1.4k (exactly $1,435) | Traxmaster Productions | |
 | Sunset Drive | $3.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | Klapanom Games | |
 | Spirit Driver | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Stellar Horse Studios | |
 | Misery Avenue | $3.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | Miseryous Games | |
 | Jeepney Stories | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Kuyi Mobile |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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