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Should I ship a Destruction Parkour game?
Destruction + Parkour
Only 10 developers shipped a Destruction Parkour 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, Echo Point Nova, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×5.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.9k, ×4.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $5.6M, ×8978 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 27 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.9k (exactly $2,866) |
| Top 25% | $19k (exactly $19,095) |
| Top 5% | $5.6M (exactly $5,638,494) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 70% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Parkour
- 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, Parkour
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 96% positive over 9,117 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 5 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Just Cause™ 3 2015 · $62M 
Severed Steel 2021 · $6.7M 
Clustertruck 2016 · $6.6M 
Echo Point Nova 2024 · $5.6M 
Last Train Outta' Wormtown 2025 · $523k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Just Cause™ 3 | older | $19.99 | 104,140 85% | 3.1M | $62M (exactly $62,452,758) | Avalanche Studios |
| | Severed Steel | older | $24.99 | 8,880 95% | 266k | $6.7M (exactly $6,657,336) | Greylock Studio |
| | Clustertruck | older | $14.99 | 14,706 93% | 441k | $6.6M (exactly $6,613,288) | Landfall |
| | Echo Point Nova | $24.99 | 7,521 96% | 226k | $5.6M (exactly $5,638,494) | Greylock Studio | |
| | Last Train Outta' Wormtown | $11.99 | 1,453 96% | 44k | $523k (exactly $522,644) | Get(Color) Games | |
 | Crumble | older | $14.99 | 681 89% | 20k | $306k (exactly $306,246) | BRUTE FORCE |
 | GOAT OF DUTY | · EA older | $9.99 | 548 89% | 16k | $164k (exactly $164,236) | 34BigThings |
 | Lemma | older | $14.99 | 126 80% | 3.8k | $57k (exactly $56,662) | Helvetica Scenario |
 | Time To Stop Time | older | $9.99 | 161 71% | 4.8k | $48k (exactly $48,252) | Sicarius |
 | No Fair Play | older | $2.99 | 452 90% | 14k | $41k (exactly $40,544) | Self MADev |
 | SCHROTT: Roguelike Racer | · EA | $12.99 | 49 91% | 1.5k | $19k (exactly $19,095) | Ivy Juice |
 | A Game About Breaking Pots | $5.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $4.9k (exactly $4,852) | Glenn Verheij | |
 | Pigeon Hater | $1.99 | 48 95% | 1.4k | $2.9k (exactly $2,866) | Gif2MemeGame | |
 | Arrows and Antiquity | $4.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | True Neutral Studios | |
 | Landslip | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Pixel Doctrine | |
 | HyperLeap | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tristan Landry | |
 | Explosive Race | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SHADOW | |
 | Rush or Die | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 朱莹 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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