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Destruction + Puzzle Platformer
Only 17 developers shipped a Puzzle Platformer 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, ANTONBLAST, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $750, ×1.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $190; 1 in 20 cleared $2.3M, ×3765 the market median. Revenue is down 85% on the market; 24 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $185 (exactly $185) |
|---|---|
| Median | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) |
| Top 5% | $2.4M (exactly $2,364,617) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 71 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 85% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, 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
- Puzzle 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, Puzzle Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Puzzle, Score Attack, Action
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Colorful, 3D, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 4,097 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $190. 9 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 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
ANTONBLAST 2024 · $2.4M 
Copy Kitty 2018 · $155k 
Zup! 7 2017 · $134k 
Lemma 2015 · $57k 
No Fair Play 2023 · $41k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | ANTONBLAST | $19.99 | 3,943 95% | 118k | $2.4M (exactly $2,364,617) | Summitsphere | |
| | Copy Kitty | older | $14.99 | 345 97% | 10k | $155k (exactly $155,146) | Nuclear Strawberry |
| | Zup! 7 | older | $1.99 | 2,246 95% | 67k | $134k (exactly $134,086) | Quiet River |
| | Lemma | older | $14.99 | 126 80% | 3.8k | $57k (exactly $56,662) | Helvetica Scenario |
| | No Fair Play | older | $2.99 | 452 90% | 14k | $41k (exactly $40,544) | Self MADev |
 | The Strange City | $14.99 | 65 47% | 2.0k | $29k (exactly $29,230) | Newmatic Co., Ltd. | |
 | Super Adventure Hand | older | $12.99 | 75 96% | 2.3k | $29k (exactly $29,228) | Devm Games |
 | World of Contraptions | older | $9.99 | 89 86% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,673) | JCP Games Studio |
 | Caromble! | $12.99 | 34 73% | 1.0k | $13k (exactly $13,250) | Crimson Owl Studios | |
 | Oik 4 | older | $0.99 | 336 83% | 10k | $10k (exactly $9,979) | Crew Lab |
 | Spire Blast | $6.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $3.6k (exactly $3,565) | Orbital Knight | |
 | 1989 After the War | $4.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | SEEP | |
 | MotoTrials | $9.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Proud Arts | |
 | Entering Host | $9.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | NickSchemes | |
 | MOONY:Black_Lotus | $17.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $1.1k (exactly $1,079) | Icegrim Softworks | |
 | Bunny Hop Hop | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Moko Studio | |
 | Apes vs. Everyone | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | FuseDev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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