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Should I ship a 2D Fighter Destruction game?
Destruction + 2D Fighter
Only 9 developers shipped a 2D Fighter Destruction 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, We Could Be Heroes, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $18k, ×30 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 25 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) |
| Top 5% | $19k (exactly $18,887) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Destruction
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 2D Fighter
- effort 5 / 10 · low · frame-precise animation and rollback netcode
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Destruction, 2D Fighter
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 583 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Space SimFair
- + ModernFair
- + God GameFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Automobile SimPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
Comparable games
Gigapocalypse 2021 · $61k 
Attack Heroes 2017 · $49k 
Astro Duel 2 2024 · $35k 
We Could Be Heroes 2024 · $19k 
Galactic Thunderdome 2024 · $10k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Gigapocalypse | older | $9.99 | 204 92% | 6.1k | $61k (exactly $61,139) | Goody Gameworks |
| | Attack Heroes | older | $9.99 | 164 73% | 4.9k | $49k (exactly $49,151) | Ejoy Games |
| | Astro Duel 2 | older | $19.99 | 59 100% | 1.8k | $35k (exactly $35,382) | Rusty Moyher |
| | We Could Be Heroes | $14.99 | 42 85% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $18,887) | CebCode Games | |
| | Galactic Thunderdome | $9.99 | 35 100% | 1.1k | $10k (exactly $10,490) | Pansimula | |
 | Knockout Battle | $4.99 | 24 70% | 720 | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) | Dani Tikka Masala, Alvin Leon Dobric, A… (Dani Tikka Masala, Alvin Leon Dobric, Anton Ploetner) | |
 | GasZilla | older | $4.99 | 23 91% | 690 | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) | SUJIKO Media Group |
 | Jungle Rumble | older | $4.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | Reduc corp |
 | Holy Stick! | older | $4.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Always Too Late |
 | Robots with Guns | $7.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $959 (exactly $959) | Flash of Stars | |
 | Anarkade | $14.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | Pixelatom | |
 | Stickplosion | · EA | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Ghost World Gaming |
 | Terra Fighters | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | 74BIT | |
 | Gorilla vs Yeti | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Riaan | |
 | Chicken Battlefield | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | chickenbattlefielddevs |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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