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Should I ship a Tower Defense Racing game?
Racing + Tower Defense
Only 6 developers shipped a Tower Defense 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.. 2 more are announced.
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 $660 against a market of $630. 2 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $657 (exactly $657) |
| Top 25% | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) |
| Top 5% | $350k (exactly $349,983) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 2 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 80% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Tower Defense
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Racing, Tower Defense
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $6.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 8,007 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 9 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 2 games are announced against 1 developer 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
Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ 2017 · $1.3M 
Rock of Ages 2011 · $1.0M 
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break 2020 · $566k 
Descenders Next 2025 · EA · $350k 
召唤与合体 2020 · EA · $22k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ | older | $14.99 | 2,792 90% | 84k | $1.3M (exactly $1,255,562) | ACE Team |
| | Rock of Ages | older | $9.99 | 3,364 92% | 101k | $1.0M (exactly $1,008,191) | ACE Team |
| | Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break | older | $14.99 | 1,259 78% | 38k | $566k (exactly $566,172) | ACE Team, Giant Monkey Robot |
| | Descenders Next | · EA | $29.99 | 389 79% | 12k | $350k (exactly $349,983) | RageSquid |
| | 召唤与合体 | · EA older | $10.99 | 67 31% | 2.0k | $22k (exactly $22,090) | Philosophy♂ |
 | Dynamic Very, Very, Hard game!! | older | $4.99 | 84 45% | 2.5k | $13k (exactly $12,575) | White Dog Games |
 | Exo Wanderers | · EA | $11.99 | 22 100% | 660 | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) | 什工坊SueStudio |
 | Radiant Crusade | older | $7.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Radiance Games |
 | Attack On Ghosts | · EA | $1.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $657 (exactly $657) | OGB Crew |
 | Pix Tower | older | $1.29 | 14 64% | 420 | $542 (exactly $542) | meokigame |
 | Pathless Maze TD | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | XINGWEIZHEN | |
 | Emoji Shooter | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | SixpenceTech | |
 | Five Elements Clash Battle | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | YIN YUAN |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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