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Should I ship a 6DOF Destruction game?
Destruction + 6DOF
Only 7 developers shipped a 6DOF 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, Ragdoll Playground, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180, ×0.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper, while momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) |
| Top 5% | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 500% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, 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
- 6DOF
- 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, 6DOF
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 68% positive over 604 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Disassembly VR 2019 · $141k 
Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator 2021 · $52k 
Evasion 2018 · $29k 
Ragdoll: Fall Simulator 2021 · $25k 
Stop Sign VR Tools 2019 · EA · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Disassembly VR | older | $29.99 | 157 59% | 4.7k | $141k (exactly $141,253) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator | older | $19.99 | 87 78% | 2.6k | $52k (exactly $52,174) | KreizLand Games |
| | Evasion | older | $19.99 | 48 68% | 1.4k | $29k (exactly $28,786) | Archiact |
| | Ragdoll: Fall Simulator | older | $9.99 | 82 76% | 2.5k | $25k (exactly $24,575) | Andreev Worlds, Gamesforfarm |
| | Stop Sign VR Tools | · EA older | $5.99 | 59 84% | 1.8k | $11k (exactly $10,602) | Reality Inside Ltd. |
 | Prisoner 518 | older | $9.99 | 27 77% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | WhippedUP_gaming |
 | Cactus Cowboy - Desert Warfare | older | $9.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Cactus VR Studios |
 | The Island | older | $1.99 | 95 45% | 2.9k | $5.7k (exactly $5,672) | Ibis Games |
 | Ragdoll Playground | $9.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Paphnutius | |
 | Destroyer | older | $9.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Arent |
 | Samsara | $9.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Narriflux | |
 | Glory Defence | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Waytrel Studio | |
 | Falseflash | $1.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Blackscale Studios | |
 | Cannoneer | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | dReal | |
 | DarkSpase | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Devon James |
 | FRACTURA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ADE |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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