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Should I ship a Conspiracy Destruction game?
Destruction + Conspiracy
Only 9 developers shipped a Conspiracy 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, Deep Space Exploitation, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $90, ×0.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 18 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper, while revenue is up 140% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $45 (exactly $45) |
|---|---|
| Median | $90 (exactly $90) |
| Top 25% | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 5% | $35k (exactly $35,331) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 140% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, 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
- Conspiracy
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Destruction
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $4.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 5,052 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 18 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different setting or mood, 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
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance 2024 · $4.1M 
Shadows of Forbidden Gods 2023 · $627k 
I Am Your President 2023 · $118k 
Deep Space Exploitation 2025 · $35k 
Shadows Behind the Throne 2 2021 · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance | older | $39.99 | 3,395 82% | 102k | $4.1M (exactly $4,072,982) | Slitherine Ltd. |
| | Shadows of Forbidden Gods | older | $19.99 | 1,046 91% | 31k | $627k (exactly $627,286) | Bobby Two Hands |
| | I Am Your President | older | $14.99 | 263 66% | 7.9k | $118k (exactly $118,271) | President |
| | Deep Space Exploitation | $8.99 | 131 96% | 3.9k | $35k (exactly $35,331) | JuhrJuhr | |
| | Shadows Behind the Throne 2 | older | $7.99 | 47 76% | 1.4k | $11k (exactly $11,266) | Bobby Two Hands |
 | Super-Patriota Simulator | older | $1.99 | 140 99% | 4.2k | $8.4k (exactly $8,358) | Paranauê Ninja Games, Philosophical Sch… (Paranauê Ninja Games, Philosophical School of Games) |
 | They Came From the Sky 2 | older | $9.99 | 16 75% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | FobTi interactive |
 | The Boston Breeder | $12.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) | LostWorks | |
 | Fire Thief | older | $4.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Anthony Rietkerk |
 | Randomlands | older | $0.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | Atahan Öztürk |
 | 701病房 | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Shuo Xu | |
 | The S.H.O.W. | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | SGS | |
 | Mutational Loading | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Plexus Studio | |
 | Neo-Exodus: Last Bastion | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | GODev Games | |
 | Melancholy Lake - Camocipher12 Shorts | $1.49 | 1 100% | 30 | $45 (exactly $45) | Camocipher12 | |
 | Cacotopia | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | StudyFun | |
 | Volcano Logistics | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | GraveBell |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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