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Should I ship a Turn-Based Tactics Racing game?
Racing + Turn-Based Tactics
Only 15 developers shipped a Turn-Based Tactics 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, Open Wheel Manager 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $30 in the last 2 years and $180 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $30 (exactly $30) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) |
| Top 5% | $31k (exactly $31,169) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 70% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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 Tactics
- 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 Tactics; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Sports, Action
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 8 games average 82% positive over 193 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. 13 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship 2017 · $7.3M 
Death Roads: Tournament 2023 · $328k 
Qvadriga 2014 · $175k 
Monopoly Madness 2023 · $85k 
Raceborn 2024 · $78k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship | older | $19.99 | 12,146 82% | 364k | $7.3M (exactly $7,283,956) | KT Racing |
| | 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 |
| | Raceborn | older | $29.99 | 87 82% | 2.6k | $78k (exactly $78,274) | Galactic Geckon |
 | Open Wheel Manager 2 | $9.99 | 104 72% | 3.1k | $31k (exactly $31,169) | Paprikash Games | |
 | Racingmaybe | older | $9.99 | 77 100% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,077) | Jhoffis |
 | Lunars | · EA | $14.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Anubis Arts |
 | 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 |
 | Animal Run Relay | $9.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | youdoyou.motto | |
 | Delta Vector - Turn Based Racing | $3.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) | Felipe Pechmann | |
 | Life and death are predetermined by heaven | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Southern Vermilion Bird | |
 | The last throne | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | SLW Game Studio | |
 | CRUSH IT ALL | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Summer Poem | |
 | Mortality | $69.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 臻新 | |
 | Piground | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jewelry |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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