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Should I ship a Skateboarding Parkour game?
Parkour + Skateboarding
Only 11 developers shipped a Skateboarding Parkour 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, STORROR Parkour Pro, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.8k, ×7.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $1.2M, ×1916 the market median. Revenue is down 60% on the market; 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.8k (exactly $4,794) |
| Top 25% | $62k (exactly $61,826) |
| Top 5% | $1.2M (exactly $1,203,268) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 60% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Parkour
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Skateboarding
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Parkour, Skateboarding
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 2,214 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 6 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerLong shot
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CatsPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
Session: Skate Sim 2022 · $16M 
STORROR Parkour Pro 2025 · EA · $1.2M 
VR Skater 2024 · $133k 
Graffism VR - Graffiti Simulator 2025 · EA · $73k 
Tricking 0 2022 · EA · $64k | 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. |
| | STORROR Parkour Pro | · EA | $24.99 | 1,605 71% | 48k | $1.2M (exactly $1,203,268) | Hole in the Sleeve Game Studios |
| | VR Skater | older | $19.99 | 222 86% | 6.7k | $133k (exactly $133,133) | DEFICIT Games |
| | Graffism VR - Graffiti Simulator | · EA | $24.99 | 98 86% | 2.9k | $73k (exactly $73,471) | VRiteLabs |
| | Tricking 0 | · EA older | $19.99 | 107 89% | 3.2k | $64k (exactly $64,168) | Full-in Studios |
 | Toree Saturn | $4.99 | 413 93% | 12k | $62k (exactly $61,826) | Siactro | |
 | STREET UNi X | older | $19.99 | 78 96% | 2.3k | $47k (exactly $46,777) | daffodil & friends |
 | Rocket Skates VR | older | $9.99 | 53 81% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $15,884) | EpiXR Games UG |
 | hoVRboard | older | $11.99 | 33 93% | 990 | $12k (exactly $11,870) | TomyHorst |
 | Mop Skater | $6.99 | 41 78% | 1.2k | $8.6k (exactly $8,598) | youpiepoopie | |
 | Bambas! | $14.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $6.7k (exactly $6,746) | DevilishGames | |
 | Sonki's Lagoon | · EA | $7.99 | 20 95% | 600 | $4.8k (exactly $4,794) | CocoDev |
 | Cow | $4.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | ZDEsy | |
 | JUST SKATEBOARD | $5.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | Skateboard | |
 | Backflip Madness 2 | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Hubert Śliwka | |
 | BIG BALLS | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | BIG BALL |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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