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Should I ship a Destruction Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Destruction
Only 5 developers shipped a Destruction Hero Shooter 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, KILLDOZER, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×7.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $360 against a market of $1.3k. 23 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $178 (exactly $178) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $21k (exactly $20,760) |
| Top 5% | $34k (exactly $34,183) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hero Shooter
- effort 9 / 10 · low · competitive netcode plus hero balance and content cadence
- Destruction
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter, Destruction
- Price point
- $2.99 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 $5.99.
The top 10 games average 50% positive over 272,689 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 23 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + MedievalLong shot
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SuperheroPoor odds
- + Battle RoyalePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Battlefield™ 2042 2021 · $468M 
Friends vs Friends 2023 · $3.3M 
RIPOUT 2024 · $470k 
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider 2023 · $249k 
KILLDOZER 2025 · EA · $34k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battlefield™ 2042 | older | $59.99 | 260,308 49% | 7.8M | $468M (exactly $468,476,308) | DICE |
| | Friends vs Friends | older | $9.99 | 10,860 83% | 326k | $3.3M (exactly $3,254,742) | Brainwash Gang |
| | RIPOUT | older | $19.99 | 783 65% | 23k | $470k (exactly $469,565) | Pet Project Games |
| | Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider | older | $16.99 | 489 85% | 15k | $249k (exactly $249,243) | JoyMasher |
| | KILLDOZER | · EA | $19.99 | 57 78% | 1.7k | $34k (exactly $34,183) | Rename For Value |
 | Deadliest Pigeon | $6.99 | 99 93% | 3.0k | $21k (exactly $20,760) | Rusty Rex | |
 | Timewell: Trail of Celestes | older | $17.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $11k (exactly $10,794) | OZBER CIN |
 | Cactus Cowboy - Desert Warfare | older | $9.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Cactus VR Studios |
 | ATTACK OF THE EVIL POOP | older | $7.99 | 30 86% | 900 | $7.2k (exactly $7,191) | AN Games |
 | They Came From the Sky 2 | older | $9.99 | 16 75% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | FobTi interactive |
 | WhamPunch 超能打 | · EA | $2.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | AWE_some_ZT |
 | 3D Raid River | $0.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | MLB-Miagui | |
 | J. El Tanquista | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Jorge Damian Rodriguez |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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