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Should I ship a Platformer Destruction game?
Destruction + Platformer
Of 38 developers who shipped a Platformer Destruction game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 78 more are announced, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $210; 1 in 20 cleared $520k, ×832 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 78 games are announced against 23 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $716 (exactly $716) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) |
| Top 5% | $523k (exactly $522,644) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 38 |
| Released games | 138 |
| Announced | 78 |
| 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 50% on the market, supply 55% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Platformer
- 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, Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action-Adventure, 2D Platformer
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Cute, Hand-drawn
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 6,497 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 8 in 10 of the 22 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 78 games are announced against 23 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 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
Clustertruck 2016 · $6.6M 
ANTONBLAST 2024 · $2.4M 
Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story™ 2021 · $671k 
Actraiser Renaissance 2021 · $637k 
Last Train Outta' Wormtown 2025 · $523k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Clustertruck | older | $14.99 | 14,706 93% | 441k | $6.6M (exactly $6,613,288) | Landfall |
| | ANTONBLAST | $19.99 | 3,943 95% | 118k | $2.4M (exactly $2,364,617) | Summitsphere | |
| | Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story™ | older | $9.99 | 2,238 79% | 67k | $671k (exactly $670,729) | Choice Provisions |
| | Actraiser Renaissance | older | $29.99 | 708 74% | 21k | $637k (exactly $636,988) | Square Enix, Sonic Powered |
| | Last Train Outta' Wormtown | $11.99 | 1,453 96% | 44k | $523k (exactly $522,644) | Get(Color) Games | |
 | Bionic Bay | $19.99 | 750 84% | 23k | $450k (exactly $449,775) | Psychoflow Studio, Mureena Oy | |
 | Crumble | older | $14.99 | 681 89% | 20k | $306k (exactly $306,246) | BRUTE FORCE |
 | Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider | older | $16.99 | 489 85% | 15k | $249k (exactly $249,243) | JoyMasher |
 | RIVE | older | $14.99 | 468 83% | 14k | $210k (exactly $210,460) | Two Tribes |
 | Copy Kitty | older | $14.99 | 345 97% | 10k | $155k (exactly $155,146) | Nuclear Strawberry |
 | Tasty Planet: Final Bite | $12.99 | 100 90% | 3.0k | $39k (exactly $38,970) | Dingo Games | |
 | Deadliest Pigeon | $6.99 | 99 93% | 3.0k | $21k (exactly $20,760) | Rusty Rex | |
 | Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N. | $9.99 | 57 100% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,083) | PD_CGT | |
 | Castle of Vania | $10.99 | 35 48% | 1.1k | $12k (exactly $11,540) | Succubus Factory | |
 | The Core | · EA | $19.99 | 17 70% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | Electric Machine Games |
 | LURRUNA - The Island of Towering Automatons | $9.99 | 25 100% | 750 | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) | PD_CGT | |
 | 1989 After the War | $4.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | SEEP |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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