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Should I ship a Medieval Racing game?
Racing + Medieval
Only 9 developers shipped a Medieval 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, Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced, ×2.5 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 $0 against a market of $630. 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 5% | $80k (exactly $80,496) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Racing
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 7,703 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Racing with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ 2017 · $1.3M 
Rock of Ages 2011 · $1.0M 
Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) 2021 · $920k 
Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens 2025 · $80k 
Balancelot 2019 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ | older | $14.99 | 2,792 90% | 84k | $1.3M (exactly $1,255,562) | ACE Team |
| | Rock of Ages | older | $9.99 | 3,364 92% | 101k | $1.0M (exactly $1,008,191) | ACE Team |
| | Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) | older | $24.99 | 1,227 78% | 37k | $920k (exactly $919,882) | Jutsu Games |
| | Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens | $14.99 | 179 95% | 5.4k | $80k (exactly $80,496) | Mushreb Games | |
| | Balancelot | older | $7.99 | 67 94% | 2.0k | $16k (exactly $16,060) | AnvilBird Interactive |
 | Great Marble Adventure | older | $14.99 | 20 100% | 600 | $9.0k (exactly $8,994) | NaCl586 |
 | FPVSIM Drone Simulator | older | $8.99 | 12 16% | 360 | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) | fpvsim.com |
 | Carnage Kart X | · EA | $4.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Two Brain Games |
 | Moto Knight | older | $1.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $1.6k (exactly $1,612) | Jonathan Trites |
 | Park Up - Car | older | $6.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Dimension 42 |
 | Chimera Circuit | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | BLYTHE | |
 | Lawnmower Game Horrorland | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software | |
 | Number Wars | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Enaayah Software Development and Servic… (Enaayah Software Development and Services Private Limited) | |
 | AboFlah-intelliFinish | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | obada alnakib | |
 | Universe Of Trials | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Rohit Patidar | |
 | Kingdom Of Cubes | $54.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Riddik | |
 | Jugger - the video game | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Knorrmal Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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