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Should I ship a Snowboarding Racing game?
Racing + Snowboarding
Only 7 developers shipped a Snowboarding 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, Descenders Next, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×18 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $600 against a market of $630. 18 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $99k (exactly $98,756) |
| Top 5% | $350k (exactly $349,983) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 85% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 22%, 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
- Snowboarding
- 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, Snowboarding
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 62,732 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 6 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×18 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Racing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Riders Republic 2023 · $37M 
Steep™ 2016 · $28M 
Descenders Next 2025 · EA · $350k 
Grand Mountain Adventure: Wonderlands 2022 · $192k 
The Snowboard Game 2018 · $139k | 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) |
| | Steep™ | older | $29.99 | 30,589 82% | 918k | $28M (exactly $27,520,923) | Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ub… (Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Kiev) |
| | Descenders Next | · EA | $29.99 | 389 79% | 12k | $350k (exactly $349,983) | RageSquid |
| | Grand Mountain Adventure: Wonderlands | older | $19.99 | 320 92% | 9.6k | $192k (exactly $191,904) | Toppluva AB |
| | The Snowboard Game | older | $14.99 | 309 82% | 9.3k | $139k (exactly $138,957) | Let it roll AB |
 | Tricky Madness | · EA | $7.99 | 412 95% | 12k | $99k (exactly $98,756) | Nathan Dearth |
 | Slopecrashers | $17.99 | 82 93% | 2.5k | $44k (exactly $44,255) | byteparrot | |
 | Shiny Ski Resort | older | $8.99 | 102 92% | 3.1k | $28k (exactly $27,509) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | hoVRboard | older | $11.99 | 33 93% | 990 | $12k (exactly $11,870) | TomyHorst |
 | Winter Games 2023 | older | $9.99 | 38 65% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $11,389) | Independent Arts Software GmbH |
 | Snowboard League | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | SirDiabo | |
 | Gob Johnson's Downhill Marmalade | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | tophatsquid games | |
 | Slide Faster | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Puzzle Drop Studio | |
 | Gob Loggin' | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Get Ahead Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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