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Should I ship a Turn-Based Strategy Racing game?
Racing + Turn-Based Strategy
Only 12 developers shipped a Turn-Based Strategy 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, Delta Manager, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $89, ×0.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. Revenue is down 40% on the market, with 12 games announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $89 (exactly $89) |
| Top 25% | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $10,912) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 down 40% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Turn-Based Strategy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Racing, Turn-Based Strategy
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 90% positive over 74 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 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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- + TransportationFair
- + AutomationFair
- + Grand StrategyFair
- + Time AttackFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Choices MatterFair
- + City BuilderLong shot
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
Comparable games
GearCity 2022 · $850k 
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break 2020 · $566k 
Death Roads: Tournament 2023 · $328k 
Qvadriga 2014 · $175k 
Monopoly Madness 2023 · $85k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | GearCity | older | $19.99 | 1,417 89% | 43k | $850k (exactly $849,775) | Visual Entertainment And Technologies |
| | Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break | older | $14.99 | 1,259 78% | 38k | $566k (exactly $566,172) | ACE Team, Giant Monkey Robot |
| | Death Roads: Tournament | older | $14.99 | 729 80% | 22k | $328k (exactly $327,831) | The Knights of Unity |
| | Qvadriga | older | $19.99 | 291 84% | 8.7k | $175k (exactly $174,513) | Turnopia |
| | Monopoly Madness | older | $29.99 | 94 43% | 2.8k | $85k (exactly $84,572) | Engine Software, Ubisoft |
 | Racingmaybe | older | $9.99 | 77 100% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,077) | Jhoffis |
 | Delta Manager | · EA | $12.99 | 28 92% | 840 | $11k (exactly $10,912) | Fassi Blue |
 | Magnytour | older | $14.99 | 22 86% | 660 | $9.9k (exactly $9,893) | Pandaroo Interactive |
 | Spanking Runners | older | $4.99 | 34 91% | 1.0k | $5.1k (exactly $5,090) | K-D Lab |
 | Season 31 | $4.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | Main Sequence Star, Cal Chevreul, Lorra… (Main Sequence Star, Cal Chevreul, Lorrain Castel) | |
 | Delta Vector - Turn Based Racing | $3.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) | Felipe Pechmann | |
 | Pathless Maze TD | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | XINGWEIZHEN | |
 | The last throne | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | SLW Game Studio | |
 | KunKun miner | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | ikun | |
 | Ostensible | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Zhang Huiqin | |
 | Don't Flip First | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | LionsHead Development | |
 | CRUSH IT ALL | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Summer Poem | |
 | Snail Mail | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | WASD Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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