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Destruction + Boomer Shooter
Only 19 developers shipped a Boomer Shooter 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, Project Absentia, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 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 $1.7k, ×2.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $42k, ×68 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 27 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.7k (exactly $1,709) |
| Top 25% | $11k (exactly $10,795) |
| Top 5% | $43k (exactly $42,579) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 27 |
| 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 80% on the market, supply 50% 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.
- Destruction
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Boomer Shooter
- 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, Boomer Shooter; all of the top 25% also carry Action, FPS, Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with First-Person, Retro, 1990's
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 458 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 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
Trepang2 2023 · $19M 
Red Faction 2009 · $726k 
Chop Goblins 2022 · $431k 
ARKOS 2021 · $54k 
Project Absentia 2026 · $43k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Trepang2 | older | $39.99 | 15,774 93% | 473k | $19M (exactly $18,924,068) | Trepang Studios |
| | Red Faction | older | $9.99 | 2,421 85% | 73k | $726k (exactly $725,574) | Volition |
| | Chop Goblins | older | $4.99 | 2,881 97% | 86k | $431k (exactly $431,286) | David Szymanski |
| | ARKOS | older | $9.99 | 179 78% | 5.4k | $54k (exactly $53,646) | RetroSouls |
| | Project Absentia | $19.99 | 71 95% | 2.1k | $43k (exactly $42,579) | Waffle Iron Studios | |
 | ARKOS 2 | $12.99 | 34 91% | 1.0k | $13k (exactly $13,250) | RetroSouls | |
 | Chains of Fury | older | $9.99 | 44 31% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Cobble Games |
 | Ultra Cop | $1.99 | 195 89% | 5.9k | $12k (exactly $11,642) | JG Roos | |
 | Spaceflux | $4.99 | 73 57% | 2.2k | $11k (exactly $10,928) | Calin Ardelean | |
 | Exovoid Carnage | $19.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $11k (exactly $10,795) | Man Up Time, LLC | |
 | Galactic Outlaws | $8.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $5.9k (exactly $5,933) | Square Wheel | |
 | DOOM SPIRAL | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Forbidden Saucery | |
 | ULTIMATE ARMORED TURBODRIFTER ~ SaGa Chapter 2 ~【TANK AUTHORITY WOLFRAM】 | $4.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | The Dark Union | |
 | HEAVENSHATTER | $4.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | Raifu | |
 | Under Destruction | · EA | $18.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.7k (exactly $1,709) | Quantum Dynamics |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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