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Destruction + Inventory Management
Only 8 developers shipped an Inventory Management 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, Keep Digging, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×6.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.4k against a market of $630. 25 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $1.1k (exactly $1,079) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) |
| Top 25% | $44k (exactly $43,649) |
| Top 5% | $614k (exactly $613,792) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 90% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 25%, 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
- Inventory Management
- 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, Inventory Management
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $7.81.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 20,725 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.1k. 25 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.3 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
Comparable games
Stranded: Alien Dawn 2023 · $10M 
Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 2023 · $2.7M 
Ship Graveyard Simulator 2021 · $948k 
Keep Digging 2025 · $614k 
Plane Mechanic Simulator 2024 · $561k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stranded: Alien Dawn | older | $34.99 | 9,715 84% | 291k | $10M (exactly $10,197,836) | Haemimont Games |
| | Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 | older | $24.99 | 3,634 77% | 109k | $2.7M (exactly $2,724,410) | Games Incubator, Hypnotic Ants |
| | Ship Graveyard Simulator | older | $14.99 | 2,107 64% | 63k | $948k (exactly $947,518) | Games Incubator |
| | Keep Digging | $6.99 | 2,927 79% | 88k | $614k (exactly $613,792) | Wild Dog | |
| | Plane Mechanic Simulator | older | $11.99 | 1,561 56% | 47k | $561k (exactly $561,492) | Cobble Games, Disaster Studio |
 | Ancient Space | older | $19.99 | 270 42% | 8.1k | $162k (exactly $161,919) | CreativeForge Games |
 | Monuments Renovator | older | $14.99 | 286 62% | 8.6k | $129k (exactly $128,614) | Games Incubator, North Wind |
 | Good Kill! | · EA | $13.99 | 104 68% | 3.1k | $44k (exactly $43,649) | gamegine |
 | Planet Killer | $12.99 | 94 79% | 2.8k | $37k (exactly $36,632) | Talisman One Studio | |
 | Singularity Survivors | · EA older | $15.99 | 27 62% | 810 | $13k (exactly $12,952) | 71 Studios |
 | Apocalypse Factory | · EA | $9.99 | 8 50% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | Mind Leak |
 | A Game About Cutting A Tree | $5.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $2.0k (exactly $1,977) | Limey Studio | |
 | Voldark | $11.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $1.1k (exactly $1,079) | OzbalHan | |
 | Just Dig | $3.99 | 7 14% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | Parsley Crab | |
 | BattleDeck | $7.81 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 5Aces |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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