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Destruction + God Game
Only 19 developers shipped a God Game 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, Extinction Day, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $300. Revenue is flat on the market; 20 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $9.0k (exactly $8,982) |
| Top 5% | $124k (exactly $123,538) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 54 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 flat on the market, supply 70% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- God Game
- 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, God Game; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Sandbox, Simulation, Building
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, 2D, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 660 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 9 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Space SimFair
- + ModernFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Automobile SimPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
Comparable games
WorldBox - God Simulator 2021 · EA · $31M 
Universe Sandbox 2015 · EA · $25M 
Megaton Rainfall 2017 · $1.0M 
Ruinarch 2023 · $1.0M 
Shadows of Forbidden Gods 2023 · $627k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WorldBox - God Simulator | · EA older | $19.99 | 51,071 95% | 1.5M | $31M (exactly $30,627,279) | Maxim Karpenko |
| | Universe Sandbox | · EA older | $29.99 | 27,843 96% | 835k | $25M (exactly $25,050,347) | Giant Army |
| | Megaton Rainfall | older | $15.99 | 2,155 71% | 65k | $1.0M (exactly $1,033,754) | Pentadimensional Games, SL |
| | Ruinarch | older | $24.99 | 1,336 62% | 40k | $1.0M (exactly $1,001,599) | Maccima Games LLC |
| | Shadows of Forbidden Gods | older | $19.99 | 1,046 91% | 31k | $627k (exactly $627,286) | Bobby Two Hands |
 | Extinction Day | $19.99 | 206 74% | 6.2k | $124k (exactly $123,538) | DryGin Studios | |
 | Terra Firma 2 | · EA | $19.99 | 200 92% | 6.0k | $120k (exactly $119,940) | Working as Intended |
 | Sand:box | older | $1.99 | 1,659 93% | 50k | $99k (exactly $99,042) | smellymoo |
 | Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator | older | $19.99 | 87 78% | 2.6k | $52k (exactly $52,174) | KreizLand Games |
 | BoomTown! Deluxe | older | $5.99 | 196 84% | 5.9k | $35k (exactly $35,221) | Ish Games |
 | Nuclear Design Bureau | · EA | $9.99 | 88 79% | 2.6k | $26k (exactly $26,374) | Design Bureau KB-11 |
 | Holiday Motel Simulator | · EA | $12.99 | 49 63% | 1.5k | $19k (exactly $19,095) | Red Phoenix Interactive |
 | Reyher Austerich's Garden worlds Adventure | $4.99 | 60 90% | 1.8k | $9.0k (exactly $8,982) | MegaDragonGirls Project | |
 | Water Box: Sandbox Playground | $7.99 | 11 63% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | Gaming-Apps.com | |
 | Balls Crush Simulator | $2.99 | 20 80% | 600 | $1.8k (exactly $1,794) | BEST SIMULATORS CORP | |
 | Evil Superhero Simulator | · EA | $2.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) | Superhero Central |
 | Destructive Contraptions | $7.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Gamergetik | |
 | Ludicrum | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Cheese Tart |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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