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Should I ship a 3D Platformer Destruction game?
Destruction + 3D Platformer
Of 29 developers who shipped a 3D Platformer Destruction 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.. 61 more are announced, ×4.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 14 developers shipped in the last year and 61 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) |
| Top 5% | $523k (exactly $522,644) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 29 |
| Released games | 92 |
| Announced | 61 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 10% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Destruction
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 3D Platformer
- 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
- Destruction, 3D Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Platformer, Score Attack
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Colorful, First-Person, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 2,659 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 9 in 10 of the 17 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 61 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.4 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
Clustertruck 2016 · $6.6M 
Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered 2021 · $3.6M 
Gori: Cuddly Carnage 2024 · $946k 
Clone Drone in the Hyperdome 2024 · $628k 
Last Train Outta' Wormtown 2025 · $523k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Clustertruck | older | $14.99 | 14,706 93% | 441k | $6.6M (exactly $6,613,288) | Landfall |
| | Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered | older | $29.99 | 3,968 73% | 119k | $3.6M (exactly $3,570,010) | Deep Silver Volition, Sperasoft |
| | Gori: Cuddly Carnage | older | $21.99 | 1,434 96% | 43k | $946k (exactly $946,010) | Angry Demon Studio |
| | Clone Drone in the Hyperdome | $19.99 | 1,048 91% | 31k | $628k (exactly $628,486) | Doborog Games | |
| | Last Train Outta' Wormtown | $11.99 | 1,453 96% | 44k | $523k (exactly $522,644) | Get(Color) Games | |
 | Crumble | older | $14.99 | 681 89% | 20k | $306k (exactly $306,246) | BRUTE FORCE |
 | Catlateral Damage | older | $9.99 | 1,006 88% | 30k | $301k (exactly $301,498) | Manekoware, Fire Hose Games |
 | Lemma | older | $14.99 | 126 80% | 3.8k | $57k (exactly $56,662) | Helvetica Scenario |
 | Diatomic | older | $9.99 | 135 76% | 4.1k | $40k (exactly $40,460) | Diatomic Studios |
 | Sebil Engineering | older | $11.99 | 82 97% | 2.5k | $29k (exactly $29,495) | FrogStore |
 | SCHROTT: Roguelike Racer | · EA | $12.99 | 49 91% | 1.5k | $19k (exactly $19,095) | Ivy Juice |
 | Caromble! | $12.99 | 34 73% | 1.0k | $13k (exactly $13,250) | Crimson Owl Studios | |
 | The Core | · EA | $19.99 | 17 70% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | Electric Machine Games |
 | AURORA FLIGHT (オーロラ・フライト) | $10.99 | 17 41% | 510 | $5.6k (exactly $5,605) | すたじおわかる | |
 | Unfair Rampage: Knightfall | $5.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Imphenzia | |
 | Arrows and Antiquity | $4.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | True Neutral Studios | |
 | The Corruption | $9.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | Acellular | |
 | Super Rolling Heroes Deluxe | $10.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.3k (exactly $1,319) | Solid Neon Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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