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Should I ship a Split Screen Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Split Screen
Of 23 developers who shipped a Split Screen Vehicular Combat game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 52 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.4k, ×3.8 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $660; 1 in 20 cleared $1.8M, ×2978 the market median. Revenue is down 35% on the market; 52 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $657 (exactly $657) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,190) |
| Top 5% | $1.9M (exactly $1,869,888) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 23 |
| Released games | 65 |
| Announced | 52 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 35% on the market, supply 90% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Split Screen
- 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
- Vehicular Combat, Split Screen; all of the top 25% also carry Arcade, Combat Racing, Racing
- Price point
- $11.99 typical · top 25% priced $59.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, 1990's, Anime
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $59.99 or above; the middle game at $11.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 13,738 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $660. 9 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 52 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Looter ShooterFair
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 2025 · $24M 
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted 2020 · $15M 
GRIP: Combat Racing 2018 · $3.3M 
STAR WARS™ Battlefront 2020 · $3.1M 
Screamer 2026 · $1.9M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds | $69.99 | 11,479 93% | 344k | $24M (exactly $24,102,456) | Sonic Team | |
| | Need for Speed™ Most Wanted | older | $19.99 | 25,197 77% | 756k | $15M (exactly $15,110,641) | Criterion Games |
| | GRIP: Combat Racing | older | $29.99 | 3,669 86% | 110k | $3.3M (exactly $3,300,999) | Caged Element |
| | STAR WARS™ Battlefront | older | $19.99 | 5,190 79% | 156k | $3.1M (exactly $3,112,443) | DICE |
| | Screamer | $59.99 | 1,039 80% | 31k | $1.9M (exactly $1,869,888) | Milestone S.r.l. | |
 | BallisticNG | older | $14.99 | 2,285 95% | 69k | $1.0M (exactly $1,027,564) | Neognosis |
 | The Karters 2: Turbo Charged | · EA | $29.99 | 1,043 91% | 31k | $938k (exactly $938,387) | Pixel Edge Games |
 | Hotshot Racing | older | $19.99 | 1,304 78% | 39k | $782k (exactly $782,009) | Sumo Digital Ltd, Lucky Mountain Games |
 | Sky Rogue | older | $19.99 | 1,059 92% | 32k | $635k (exactly $635,082) | Fractal Phase |
 | Renegade Ops | older | $15.00 | 1,005 85% | 30k | $452k (exactly $452,250) | Avalanche Studios |
 | Race Jam | $19.99 | 36 97% | 1.1k | $22k (exactly $21,589) | DiffGames LLC | |
 | Mythic Kart Maker | · EA | $11.99 | 53 83% | 1.6k | $19k (exactly $19,064) | Dream Mix Games |
 | Chaos on Wheels | $9.99 | 34 67% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | Acodeon Development | |
 | Positron | · EA | $14.99 | 19 100% | 570 | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) | Retroburn |
 | The Henchmen | $9.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Alex Von Bronx | |
 | Ed & Edda: GRAND PRIX – Racing Champions | $39.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $4.8k (exactly $4,799) | Tivola Games GmbH, Funatics Software | |
 | Me, You and Kaiju | · EA | $14.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | Sleepy Coast Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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