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Should I ship an Interactive Fiction Racing game?
Racing + Interactive Fiction
Only 10 developers shipped an Interactive Fiction Racing 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, Easy Delivery Co., made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.8 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 $1.5k against a market of $630. 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 25% | $3.6k (exactly $3,565) |
| Top 5% | $3.7M (exactly $3,716,959) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 up 31935% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle handling, track content and opponent AI
- Interactive Fiction
- effort 1 / 10 · high · prose plus a state machine
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Racing, Interactive Fiction
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 95% positive over 9,634 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Racing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + TransportationFair
- + AutomationFair
- + Grand StrategyFair
- + Time AttackFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Choices MatterFair
- + City BuilderLong shot
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
Comparable games
Easy Delivery Co. 2025 · $3.7M 
Heading Out 2024 · $383k 
Crash Time - Undercover 2024 · $67k 
Drift On Destiny Line 2026 · EA · $21k 
Drive Me to Hell 2024 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Easy Delivery Co. | $12.99 | 9,538 95% | 286k | $3.7M (exactly $3,716,959) | Sam C | |
| | Heading Out | older | $19.99 | 639 74% | 19k | $383k (exactly $383,208) | Serious Sim, Crunching Koalas |
| | Crash Time - Undercover | older | $14.99 | 149 81% | 4.5k | $67k (exactly $67,005) | Synetic GmbH |
| | Drift On Destiny Line | · EA | $14.00 | 51 82% | 1.5k | $21k (exactly $21,420) | Attractive Studios |
| | Drive Me to Hell | older | $1.99 | 268 89% | 8.0k | $16k (exactly $16,000) | MadBug Studio |
 | Nirvana Pilot Yume | older | $3.99 | 122 75% | 3.7k | $15k (exactly $14,603) | Dev9k |
 | VR Run | older | $29.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $3.6k (exactly $3,599) | Elvio Lujan |
 | SixteenPetals | · EA | $6.99 | 17 47% | 510 | $3.6k (exactly $3,565) | Husky366Studio |
 | Season 31 | $4.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | Main Sequence Star, Cal Chevreul, Lorra… (Main Sequence Star, Cal Chevreul, Lorrain Castel) | |
 | Speed Night | older | $4.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | MC GAME |
 | Echo Wars - Road Rage | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Ivanovich Games | |
 | Life and death are predetermined by heaven | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Southern Vermilion Bird | |
 | Do Up | $3.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Questich Studio | |
 | AboFlah-intelliFinish | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | obada alnakib | |
 | Consequently | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 臻新 | |
 | Semantics | $34.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Semantics |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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