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Should I ship a Tabletop Racing game?
Racing + Tabletop
Only 9 developers shipped a Tabletop 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, 射！就完事了, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $59 in the last 2 years and $270 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $59 (exactly $59) |
| Top 25% | $270 (exactly $270) |
| Top 5% | $4.4k (exactly $4,358) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 250% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Racing, Tabletop
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $6.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 416 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Racing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
The MoneyMakers Rallye 2020 · $10k 
Magnytour 2023 · $9.9k 
Super Box Delivery: Beyond the Horizon 2023 · $5.7k 
射！就完事了 2025 · $4.4k 
MiniTracks 2020 · $4.2k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The MoneyMakers Rallye | older | $3.99 | 85 88% | 2.6k | $10k (exactly $10,174) | The Unknown Machine |
| | Magnytour | older | $14.99 | 22 86% | 660 | $9.9k (exactly $9,893) | Pandaroo Interactive |
| | Super Box Delivery: Beyond the Horizon | older | $4.99 | 38 81% | 1.1k | $5.7k (exactly $5,689) | Revulo Games |
| | 射！就完事了 | $1.99 | 73 80% | 2.2k | $4.4k (exactly $4,358) | HighSpeed Games | |
| | MiniTracks | older | $4.99 | 28 71% | 840 | $4.2k (exactly $4,192) | RIQPLAY |
 | Minigames Mayhem | · EA older | $6.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) | HamsterHam Games |
 | IllusionCircle | older | $0.99 | 98 90% | 2.9k | $2.9k (exactly $2,911) | cyy |
 | Delta Vector - Turn Based Racing | $3.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) | Felipe Pechmann | |
 | Puzzle Light: Connect | older | $0.99 | 44 93% | 1.3k | $1.3k (exactly $1,307) | Waidy Andrade |
 | Winter Games Challenge | older | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Joindots GmbH, Nementic Games |
 | GG-Party | · EA | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | GoraGames |
 | The last throne | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | SLW Game Studio | |
 | Random Horse Derby | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Kornux Games | |
 | Lovely Traps Dungeon | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jau Studio | |
 | Snail Mail | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | WASD Studios | |
 | Cube Cube 2 | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | JiaJinTao | |
 | Transit Tag | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | plexstuff |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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