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Should I ship a Racing Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Racing
Only 10 developers shipped a Racing Spectacle fighter 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, DriveCrazy, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 5% | $24k (exactly $24,068) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 flat on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Racing
- effort 6 / 10 · low · vehicle handling, track content and opponent AI
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Racing
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 89% positive over 92 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. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Music Racer 2018 · $199k 
DriveCrazy 2025 · $24k 
Fishermurs 2017 · $19k 
Bike Rush 2018 · $9.1k 
Witch Epoch 2022 · $9.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Music Racer | older | $1.99 | 3,332 87% | 100k | $199k (exactly $198,920) | AbstractArt |
| | DriveCrazy | $10.99 | 73 94% | 2.2k | $24k (exactly $24,068) | TubezGames | |
| | Fishermurs | older | $4.99 | 127 67% | 3.8k | $19k (exactly $19,012) | Reward Hunters |
| | Bike Rush | older | $4.99 | 61 44% | 1.8k | $9.1k (exactly $9,132) | Axyos Games |
| | Witch Epoch | older | $24.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Grind Rush | $15.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $4.3k (exactly $4,317) | AND GEAR | |
 | Ultimate Bumper Cars - Dodgems | older | $17.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $3.2k (exactly $3,238) | ogsoftgames |
 | Zombie Crush Driver | older | $2.99 | 28 71% | 840 | $2.5k (exactly $2,512) | ILXAM, Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Helicopter Simulator 2020 | older | $9.99 | 8 0% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | Technologies&Simulators |
 | Food Delivery Battle | older | $3.99 | 19 89% | 570 | $2.3k (exactly $2,274) | STP WORKS |
 | Pizza Delivery in a Storm | $11.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $719 (exactly $719) | GAMING RIKISHI | |
 | KIKEN Drive (2nd Lap) | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | YonRoku | |
 | TOKYO OVERDRIVE | $3.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | FUNAKI GAMES | |
 | Tiny Wrecks | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Kaivor Studio |
 | Ostensible | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Zhang Huiqin | |
 | Equality | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Song Jun | |
 | Jugger - the video game | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Knorrmal Games | |
 | COLLISION CRASHER | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BAZOOKA STUDIO |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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