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Should I ship a Transportation Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Transportation
Only 13 developers shipped a Transportation Vehicular Combat 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, SAND: Raiders of Sophie, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.1k, ×5.0 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $9.3M, ×14904 the market median. Revenue is up 700% on the market; 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $718 (exactly $718) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $12,759) |
| Top 5% | $9.4M (exactly $9,360,004) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 up 700% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Transportation
- 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, Transportation
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 51% positive over 13,391 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 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
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered 2020 · $12M 
SAND: Raiders of Sophie 2026 · EA · $9.4M 
Disassembly 3D 2017 · $278k 
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing 2025 · $115k 
SimplePlanes VR 2021 · $52k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered | older | $29.99 | 13,583 81% | 407k | $12M (exactly $12,220,625) | Stellar Entertainment Limited |
| | SAND: Raiders of Sophie | · EA | $24.99 | 12,485 49% | 375k | $9.4M (exactly $9,360,004) | Hologryph, TowerHaus |
| | Disassembly 3D | older | $29.99 | 309 81% | 9.3k | $278k (exactly $278,007) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing | $5.99 | 640 79% | 19k | $115k (exactly $115,008) | Stellar Stone | |
| | SimplePlanes VR | older | $9.99 | 175 86% | 5.3k | $52k (exactly $52,448) | Jundroo, LLC |
 | Relic Odyssey : Ruins Of Xantao | · EA older | $14.99 | 88 97% | 2.6k | $40k (exactly $39,574) | Honour Bound Game Studios Inc. |
 | Jeepney Simulator 2 | $8.99 | 119 91% | 3.6k | $32k (exactly $32,094) | Spacezero Interactive | |
 | Tank Mechanic Simulator VR | older | $19.99 | 38 73% | 1.1k | $23k (exactly $22,789) | GameFormatic S.A. |
 | Steel Republic Rail Defender | older | $11.99 | 38 55% | 1.1k | $14k (exactly $13,669) | spyVspy |
 | Planet Harvester: Incremental Odyssey | $5.99 | 71 92% | 2.1k | $13k (exactly $12,759) | Galysh Company | |
 | Speed Demons 2 | $14.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $12k (exactly $11,692) | Radiangames | |
 | Train Deluxe 2026 Kurakyu | $29.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $3.6k (exactly $3,599) | MFC STUDIO, KOSEI YASUDA | |
 | Extreme Forklifting 3 | · EA | $7.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | DevM Games |
 | Last mile | $2.99 | 27 51% | 810 | $2.4k (exactly $2,422) | Underdogs | |
 | The Chaser's Voyage | $19.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Bright at Midnight: A Game Studio | |
 | Train Plus | トレインプラス | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | MFC STUDIO, KOSEI YASUDA |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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