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Destruction + Party Game
Only 13 developers shipped a Party 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, A Gentlemen's Dispute, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 79 more are announced, ×6.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $280k, ×458 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 79 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) |
| Top 25% | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) |
| Top 5% | $287k (exactly $287,400) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 79 |
| 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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Party Game
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Destruction, Party Game; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Physics, PvP
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $11.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, Cartoony, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $11.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 1,493 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 79 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.1 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
Rubber Bandits 2021 · $1.7M 
Kill It With Fire 2020 · $1.6M 
Crumble 2020 · $306k 
A Gentlemen's Dispute 2025 · $287k 
Kiln 2026 · $37k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Rubber Bandits | older | $9.99 | 5,628 84% | 169k | $1.7M (exactly $1,686,712) | Flashbulb |
| | Kill It With Fire | older | $12.99 | 4,036 95% | 121k | $1.6M (exactly $1,572,829) | Casey Donnellan Games LLC |
| | Crumble | older | $14.99 | 681 89% | 20k | $306k (exactly $306,246) | BRUTE FORCE |
| | A Gentlemen's Dispute | $7.99 | 1,199 94% | 36k | $287k (exactly $287,400) | Blast Furnace Games | |
| | Kiln | $7.99 | 154 74% | 4.6k | $37k (exactly $36,914) | Double Fine Productions | |
 | Late For Work | older | $14.99 | 78 88% | 2.3k | $35k (exactly $35,077) | Salmi Games |
 | Dino Party | $11.99 | 56 98% | 1.7k | $20k (exactly $20,143) | Studio Nachtwerk | |
 | Jelly Brawl | older | $9.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) | Tiny Shiny Things |
 | Barbecue | $4.95 | 29 68% | 870 | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) | WMB | |
 | Bandits | older | $5.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $2.9k (exactly $2,875) | Benerot |
 | Mineral Madness | $7.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | Whacky Mole Studio | |
 | Velocrash | · EA | $6.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | Apolloxian Games |
 | Chaos Constructors | · EA | $5.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | Oğuz Furkan Yaprak, İbrahim Anapali |
 | Neko Neko Rampage | $1.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $1.0k (exactly $1,015) | BitCake Studio | |
 | Stickplosion | · EA | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Ghost World Gaming |
 | Landslip | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Pixel Doctrine |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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