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Should I ship an Exploration Skateboarding game?
Skateboarding + Exploration
Only 15 developers shipped an Exploration Skateboarding 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, ScooterFlow, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×5.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $8.2k, ×13 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $4.8k; 1 in 20 cleared $2.3M, ×3796 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 28 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $4.8k (exactly $4,794) |
|---|---|
| Median | $8.2k (exactly $8,234) |
| Top 25% | $718k (exactly $717,841) |
| Top 5% | $2.4M (exactly $2,383,808) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Skateboarding
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Exploration
- 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
- Skateboarding, Exploration
- Price point
- $12.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 8,708 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $4.8k. 6 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Skateboarding with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + 3D PlatformerPoor odds
- + SportsPoor odds
- + SimulationPoor odds
- + ActionPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + ParkourPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ArcadePoor odds
- + Action-AdventureDead
Comparable games
Session: Skate Sim 2022 · $16M 
ScooterFlow 2026 · $2.4M 
Sword of the Sea 2025 · $1.5M 
STORROR Parkour Pro 2025 · EA · $1.2M 
Driftwood 2025 · $718k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Session: Skate Sim | older | $39.99 | 13,460 83% | 404k | $16M (exactly $16,147,962) | crea-ture Studios Inc. |
| | ScooterFlow | $19.99 | 3,975 95% | 119k | $2.4M (exactly $2,383,808) | UncannyKiwi Limited | |
| | Sword of the Sea | $29.99 | 1,638 89% | 49k | $1.5M (exactly $1,473,709) | Giant Squid | |
| | STORROR Parkour Pro | · EA | $24.99 | 1,605 71% | 48k | $1.2M (exactly $1,203,268) | Hole in the Sleeve Game Studios |
| | Driftwood | $19.99 | 1,197 92% | 36k | $718k (exactly $717,841) | Stoked Sloth Interactive | |
 | SkateBIRD | older | $19.99 | 637 85% | 19k | $382k (exactly $382,009) | Glass Bottom Games |
 | Star Overdrive | $34.99 | 141 87% | 4.2k | $148k (exactly $148,008) | Caracal Games | |
 | VR Skater | older | $19.99 | 222 86% | 6.7k | $133k (exactly $133,133) | DEFICIT Games |
 | Seafrog | $14.99 | 35 100% | 1.1k | $16k (exactly $15,740) | OhMyMe Games | |
 | Ollie-Oop | $12.99 | 24 91% | 720 | $9.4k (exactly $9,353) | Almost Playable Games | |
 | cheapskate | · EA | $4.99 | 55 98% | 1.7k | $8.2k (exactly $8,234) | Simple Dev Studio |
 | Bambas! | $14.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $6.7k (exactly $6,746) | DevilishGames | |
 | hoptix | $7.99 | 23 100% | 690 | $5.5k (exactly $5,513) | Cat Burglar Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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