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Should I ship a Level Editor Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Level Editor
Only 8 developers shipped a Level Editor Vehicular Combat 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, Armored Brigade II, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.4k, ×2.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $170k, ×281 the market median. Revenue is up 257980% on the market; 16 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
| Top 25% | $19k (exactly $19,064) |
| Top 5% | $176k (exactly $176,356) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Level Editor
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Vehicular Combat, Level Editor
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 74,133 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 16 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
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Comparable games
Besiege 2020 · $22M 
VTOL VR 2017 · $18M 
BallisticNG 2018 · $1.0M 
Crashday Redline Edition 2017 · $550k 
KitHack Model Club 2024 · $359k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Besiege | older | $14.99 | 48,045 95% | 1.4M | $22M (exactly $21,605,836) | Spiderling Studios |
| | VTOL VR | older | $29.99 | 19,885 98% | 597k | $18M (exactly $17,890,534) | Boundless Dynamics, LLC |
| | BallisticNG | older | $14.99 | 2,285 95% | 69k | $1.0M (exactly $1,027,564) | Neognosis |
| | Crashday Redline Edition | older | $11.99 | 1,528 89% | 46k | $550k (exactly $549,622) | Moonbyte |
| | KitHack Model Club | older | $19.99 | 599 75% | 18k | $359k (exactly $359,220) | Floating Origin Interactive |
 | Command & Conquer Renegade™ | older | $6.96 | 851 83% | 26k | $178k (exactly $177,689) | Westwood Studios |
 | Armored Brigade II | $39.99 | 147 87% | 4.4k | $176k (exactly $176,356) | Veitikka Studios | |
 | Wee Tanks! | older | $9.99 | 548 90% | 16k | $164k (exactly $164,236) | Studio Kit |
 | OVRLRD | · EA older | $29.99 | 96 85% | 2.9k | $86k (exactly $86,371) | OVRLRD |
 | Crash Time - Undercover | older | $14.99 | 149 81% | 4.5k | $67k (exactly $67,005) | Synetic GmbH |
 | Mythic Kart Maker | · EA | $11.99 | 53 83% | 1.6k | $19k (exactly $19,064) | Dream Mix Games |
 | Velocrash | · EA | $6.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | Apolloxian Games |
 | Destructive Contraptions | $7.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Gamergetik | |
 | Robo Balls | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Featherweight Studios LLC | |
 | Silly Tanks | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | shebagar | |
 | Tank Busters | · EA | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | tankotableat |
 | I Like to Dig | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lisen Kaci |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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