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Should I ship a Destruction Looter Shooter?
Looter Shooter + Destruction
Only 8 developers shipped a Destruction Looter 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, Deep Space Exploitation, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $4.5k against a market of $1.5k. 28 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $539 (exactly $539) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.5k (exactly $4,485) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $12,592) |
| Top 5% | $35k (exactly $35,331) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 up 4095% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 31%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Looter Shooter
- effort 8 / 10 · low · online co-op and a loot economy on top of a shooter
- Destruction
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Looter Shooter, Destruction
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 1,313 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $540. 28 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Looter Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + MechsFair
- + Vehicular CombatFair
- + IdlerFair
- + 3D PlatformerLong shot
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Twin Stick ShooterPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
Comparable games
我在地球修仙有系统 2023 · $431k 
Deep Space Exploitation 2025 · $35k 
Barbearian 2018 · $26k 
Bandit Trap 2026 · $13k 
ATTACK OF THE EVIL POOP 2019 · $7.2k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 我在地球修仙有系统 | older | $14.99 | 959 70% | 29k | $431k (exactly $431,262) | 红星 |
| | Deep Space Exploitation | $8.99 | 131 96% | 3.9k | $35k (exactly $35,331) | JuhrJuhr | |
| | Barbearian | older | $12.99 | 66 74% | 2.0k | $26k (exactly $25,720) | Kimmo Lahtinen |
| | Bandit Trap | $14.99 | 28 92% | 840 | $13k (exactly $12,592) | PICOMY | |
| | ATTACK OF THE EVIL POOP | older | $7.99 | 30 86% | 900 | $7.2k (exactly $7,191) | AN Games |
 | Dread Protocol | · EA | $7.99 | 24 83% | 720 | $5.8k (exactly $5,753) | Meat Lab |
 | Critical Fishing | $2.99 | 50 96% | 1.5k | $4.5k (exactly $4,485) | lazygun | |
 | Smells Like a Mushroom | older | $16.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $3.6k (exactly $3,568) | Red Limb Studio |
 | PowBall Renaissance | older | $3.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | POW Games |
 | Under Destruction | · EA | $18.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.7k (exactly $1,709) | Quantum Dynamics |
 | Super Space Arcade | $5.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | Worgames | |
 | Cascadence | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | proxaCor | |
 | Abrez | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Suss… (Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Sussanne Beaujeu, T.Beaujeu) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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