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Destruction + Flight
Of 33 developers who shipped a Destruction Flight 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.. 49 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480, ×0.8 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $760k, ×1220 the market median. Revenue is up 20% on the market; 49 games are announced against 18 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $5.6k (exactly $5,605) |
| Top 5% | $766k (exactly $766,289) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 33 |
| Released games | 103 |
| Announced | 49 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 20% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Flight
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Destruction, Flight; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Exploration, Open World
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 11,750 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 8 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 49 games are announced against 18 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 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
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Besiege 2020 · $22M 
Starpoint Gemini 2 2014 · $3.2M 
Aviassembly 2025 · EA · $2.8M 
Megaton Rainfall 2017 · $1.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Brick Rigs | older | $19.99 | 53,749 95% | 1.6M | $32M (exactly $32,233,275) | Fluppisoft GmbH |
| | Besiege | older | $14.99 | 48,045 95% | 1.4M | $22M (exactly $21,605,836) | Spiderling Studios |
| | Starpoint Gemini 2 | older | $34.99 | 3,021 70% | 91k | $3.2M (exactly $3,171,144) | Little Green Men Games |
| | Aviassembly | · EA | $9.99 | 9,323 96% | 280k | $2.8M (exactly $2,794,103) | Jelle Booij |
| | Megaton Rainfall | older | $15.99 | 2,155 71% | 65k | $1.0M (exactly $1,033,754) | Pentadimensional Games, SL |
 | ICBM | older | $19.99 | 1,655 91% | 50k | $993k (exactly $992,503) | SoftWarWare, K-Project |
 | Vietnam War | · EA | $14.99 | 1,704 84% | 51k | $766k (exactly $766,289) | Thorium Game Lab |
 | Disassembly 3D | older | $29.99 | 309 81% | 9.3k | $278k (exactly $278,007) | Khor Chin Heong |
 | Disassembly VR | older | $29.99 | 157 59% | 4.7k | $141k (exactly $141,253) | Khor Chin Heong |
 | Thunder Wolves | older | $9.99 | 446 84% | 13k | $134k (exactly $133,666) | Most Wanted Entertainment |
 | BeastLink | · EA | $19.99 | 187 45% | 5.6k | $112k (exactly $112,144) | Grove Street Games |
 | TOP DOG | $9.99 | 263 88% | 7.9k | $79k (exactly $78,821) | MorfeoDev | |
 | Deep Space Exploitation | $8.99 | 131 96% | 3.9k | $35k (exactly $35,331) | JuhrJuhr | |
 | POLARIS™ | $19.99 | 32 59% | 960 | $19k (exactly $19,190) | POLARIS™ Team, Variable State | |
 | Cosmic Miners | · EA | $9.99 | 60 53% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,982) | bitByte Games |
 | Highway Drifter: Hajwala Simulator | $9.99 | 30 86% | 900 | $9.0k (exactly $8,991) | Mad Hook | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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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