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Should I ship a Skateboarding Racing game?
Racing + Skateboarding
Only 11 developers shipped a Skateboarding 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, STORROR Parkour Pro, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×6.0 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 $300 against a market of $630. 24 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $718k (exactly $717,841) |
| Top 5% | $1.2M (exactly $1,203,268) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 24 |
| 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 up 50% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle handling, track content and opponent AI
- 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
- Racing, Skateboarding
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 85% positive over 4,806 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 7 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Riders Republic 2023 · $37M 
STORROR Parkour Pro 2025 · EA · $1.2M 
Slackers - Carts of Glory 2024 · $773k 
Driftwood 2025 · $718k 
SkateBIRD 2021 · $382k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Riders Republic | older | $39.99 | 30,458 81% | 914k | $37M (exactly $36,540,463) | Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubiso… (Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Pune, Ubisoft Odesa) |
| | STORROR Parkour Pro | · EA | $24.99 | 1,605 71% | 48k | $1.2M (exactly $1,203,268) | Hole in the Sleeve Game Studios |
| | Slackers - Carts of Glory | $12.99 | 1,984 91% | 60k | $773k (exactly $773,165) | Falling Saints | |
| | Driftwood | $19.99 | 1,197 92% | 36k | $718k (exactly $717,841) | Stoked Sloth Interactive | |
| | SkateBIRD | older | $19.99 | 637 85% | 19k | $382k (exactly $382,009) | Glass Bottom Games |
 | Tanuki Sunset | older | $14.99 | 451 93% | 14k | $203k (exactly $202,815) | Rewind Games |
 | REKT! High Octane Stunts | older | $5.99 | 117 94% | 3.5k | $21k (exactly $21,025) | Little Chicken Game Company |
 | 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 |
 | Urban Trial Tricky™ Deluxe Edition | older | $19.99 | 16 56% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Tate Multimedia |
 | Cow | $4.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | ZDEsy | |
 | Gob Johnson's Downhill Marmalade | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | tophatsquid games | |
 | Codename Medusa | · EA | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Serramonaca Capital Ventures |
 | BIG BALLS | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | BIG BALL |
 | Kitesurf Runner | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Dumpster Buddha Games | |
 | Slide Faster | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Puzzle Drop Studio | |
 | Bruxa | $4.20 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | xinela |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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