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Should I ship a Post-apocalyptic Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Post-apocalyptic
Of 39 developers who shipped a Post-apocalyptic Vehicular Combat game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 125 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.7k, ×4.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $640k, ×1021 the market median. Revenue is up 50% on the market; 125 games are announced against 25 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $358 (exactly $358) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) |
| Top 25% | $21k (exactly $20,614) |
| Top 5% | $641k (exactly $641,482) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 39 |
| Released games | 107 |
| Announced | 125 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 50% on the market, supply 80% more 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.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Post-apocalyptic
- 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; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Exploration, Roguelite
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $15.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Top-Down, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $15.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 5,272 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 14 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 125 games are announced against 25 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Looter ShooterFair
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ 2023 · $121M 
Mad Max 2015 · $35M 
RAGE 2 2019 · $17M 
Ghostrunner 2 2023 · $9.6M 
FUMES 2025 · EA · $1.3M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ | older | $59.99 | 66,987 91% | 2.0M | $121M (exactly $120,556,504) | FromSoftware, Inc. |
| | Mad Max | older | $19.99 | 57,651 91% | 1.7M | $35M (exactly $34,573,305) | Avalanche Studios |
| | RAGE 2 | older | $39.99 | 14,019 64% | 421k | $17M (exactly $16,818,594) | id Software, Avalanche Studios |
| | Ghostrunner 2 | older | $39.99 | 7,981 80% | 239k | $9.6M (exactly $9,574,806) | One More Level |
| | FUMES | · EA | $14.99 | 2,816 95% | 84k | $1.3M (exactly $1,266,355) | FUMES team |
 | Zombie Driver HD | older | $9.99 | 2,770 84% | 83k | $830k (exactly $830,169) | Exor Studios |
 | Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer | $18.99 | 1,126 78% | 34k | $641k (exactly $641,482) | Runner Duck | |
 | Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina | older | $7.99 | 2,426 83% | 73k | $582k (exactly $581,512) | Targem Games |
 | METAL MAX Xeno Reborn | older | $39.99 | 444 65% | 13k | $533k (exactly $532,667) | 24Frame,inc. |
 | Insect Swarm | older | $6.99 | 2,491 84% | 75k | $522k (exactly $522,363) | Parallel Portal |
 | Tankenstein | · EA | $17.99 | 238 89% | 7.1k | $128k (exactly $128,449) | Landship Games LTD |
 | Snow Ash | $14.99 | 179 73% | 5.4k | $80k (exactly $80,496) | Ember Studio | |
 | Apocalypse Express | $9.99 | 262 81% | 7.9k | $79k (exactly $78,521) | Llamaware Studios | |
 | Dust Raiders | $15.99 | 160 64% | 4.8k | $77k (exactly $76,752) | Vixa Games | |
 | Nightmare Drive | · EA | $14.99 | 156 78% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $70,153) | Voidfiller |
 | Driveloop: Survivors | · EA | $9.99 | 96 76% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $28,771) | Stunbyte |
 | BROTANK | $4.99 | 153 81% | 4.6k | $23k (exactly $22,904) | Dfirend Games | |
 | SCAD | · EA | $7.99 | 86 76% | 2.6k | $21k (exactly $20,614) | NAISU |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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