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Should I ship a Vehicular Combat Looter Shooter?
Looter Shooter + Vehicular Combat
Only 11 developers shipped a Vehicular Combat Looter Shooter 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, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, 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.
Verdict: fair, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $15k, ×9.7 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $300. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 14 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $15k (exactly $14,521) |
| Top 25% | $632k (exactly $632,067) |
| Top 5% | $7.5M (exactly $7,526,918) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 350% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Looter Shooter
- effort 8 / 10 · low · online co-op and a loot economy on top of a shooter
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Looter Shooter, Vehicular Combat
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 12,068 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 14 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Looter Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + MechsFair
- + IdlerFair
- + 3D PlatformerLong shot
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Twin Stick ShooterPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
Comparable games
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando 2026 · $7.5M 
Pax Autocratica 2026 · EA · $2.9M 
TerraTech Legion 2026 · $632k 
Tankenstein 2025 · EA · $128k 
Reaper Actual 2026 · EA · $65k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | John Carpenter's Toxic Commando | $39.99 | 6,274 72% | 188k | $7.5M (exactly $7,526,918) | Saber Interactive | |
| | Pax Autocratica | · EA | $29.99 | 3,202 91% | 96k | $2.9M (exactly $2,880,839) | Multiverse |
| | TerraTech Legion | $9.99 | 2,109 81% | 63k | $632k (exactly $632,067) | Payload Studios | |
| | Tankenstein | · EA | $17.99 | 238 89% | 7.1k | $128k (exactly $128,449) | Landship Games LTD |
| | Reaper Actual | · EA | $19.99 | 109 42% | 3.3k | $65k (exactly $65,367) | Distinct Possibility Studios, Inc. |
 | Bomb Vehicle Idle Clicker | · EA | $4.99 | 97 73% | 2.9k | $15k (exactly $14,521) | RimmindGame |
 | Duneborn | $11.99 | 35 51% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,590) | A.P Games | |
 | Sugar Tanks 2 | older | $9.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | EpiXR Games UG |
 | Crazy Derby Racing | older | $4.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | PhoenixFire Games |
 | Armored Battalion | older | $8.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $1.1k (exactly $1,079) | cuidong |
 | Soul Machine | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Zanarka Studio | |
 | Codex Solis: Purrgatorium | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Emre Sahin | |
 | Riot Ride | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Suronix |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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