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Should I ship a Destruction Fighting game?
Fighting + Destruction
Only 13 developers shipped a Destruction Fighting 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, Clone Drone in the Hyperdome, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $19k against a market of $1.5k. 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
|---|---|
| Median | $19k (exactly $18,887) |
| Top 25% | $64k (exactly $63,712) |
| Top 5% | $628k (exactly $628,486) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 up 90% on the market, supply 70% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Fighting
- effort 7 / 10 · low · frame data, hitboxes and rollback netcode
- Destruction
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting, Destruction; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Combat, Physics
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, Colorful, Comedy
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 3,010 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. 6 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fighting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SandboxStrong odds
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + Souls-likePoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + Local Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
Comparable games
Rubber Bandits 2021 · $1.7M 
GigaBash 2022 · $1.5M 
DAVIGO: VR vs. PC 2023 · EA · $900k 
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae 2014 · $823k 
Clone Drone in the Hyperdome 2024 · $628k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Rubber Bandits | older | $9.99 | 5,628 84% | 169k | $1.7M (exactly $1,686,712) | Flashbulb |
| | GigaBash | older | $24.99 | 1,951 94% | 59k | $1.5M (exactly $1,462,665) | Passion Republic Games |
| | DAVIGO: VR vs. PC | · EA older | $24.99 | 1,200 84% | 36k | $900k (exactly $899,640) | Davigo Studio |
| | Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae | older | $9.99 | 2,747 81% | 82k | $823k (exactly $823,276) | Zenith Blue |
| | Clone Drone in the Hyperdome | $19.99 | 1,048 91% | 31k | $628k (exactly $628,486) | Doborog Games | |
 | A Gentlemen's Dispute | $7.99 | 1,199 94% | 36k | $287k (exactly $287,400) | Blast Furnace Games | |
 | Monster: Titan's Playground | · EA | $29.99 | 273 91% | 8.2k | $246k (exactly $245,618) | Stellar Knights |
 | UPPERS | older | $14.99 | 155 78% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $69,704) | Bullets |
 | Pull Stay | $16.99 | 125 97% | 3.8k | $64k (exactly $63,712) | Nito Souji | |
 | Mayhemers | · EA | $6.99 | 154 84% | 4.6k | $32k (exactly $32,294) | Anigtas |
 | Dino Party | $11.99 | 56 98% | 1.7k | $20k (exactly $20,143) | Studio Nachtwerk | |
 | We Could Be Heroes | $14.99 | 42 85% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $18,887) | CebCode Games | |
 | Melon Simulator™ | $4.99 | 74 85% | 2.2k | $11k (exactly $11,078) | Delirious & Co. | |
 | Galactic Thunderdome | $9.99 | 35 100% | 1.1k | $10k (exactly $10,490) | Pansimula | |
 | Carnage Battle Arena | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Boombit |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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