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Should I ship a Space Sim Destruction game?
Destruction + Space Sim
Only 14 developers shipped a Space Sim 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, Space Engineers 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.7k, ×6.0 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $840. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 22 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $839 (exactly $839) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.7k (exactly $3,748) |
| Top 25% | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) |
| Top 5% | $4.6M (exactly $4,583,972) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 500% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Space Sim
- 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, Space Sim
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 5,379 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $840. 22 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Universe Sandbox 2015 · EA · $25M 
Hardspace: Shipbreaker 2022 · $20M 
Starbase 2021 · EA · $6.5M 
Space Engineers 2 2025 · EA · $4.6M 
Starpoint Gemini 2 2014 · $3.2M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Universe Sandbox | · EA older | $29.99 | 27,843 96% | 835k | $25M (exactly $25,050,347) | Giant Army |
| | Hardspace: Shipbreaker | older | $34.99 | 19,431 89% | 583k | $20M (exactly $20,396,721) | Blackbird Interactive |
| | Starbase | · EA older | $34.99 | 6,217 56% | 187k | $6.5M (exactly $6,525,985) | Frozenbyte |
| | Space Engineers 2 | · EA | $29.99 | 5,095 74% | 153k | $4.6M (exactly $4,583,972) | Keen Software House |
| | Starpoint Gemini 2 | older | $34.99 | 3,021 70% | 91k | $3.2M (exactly $3,171,144) | Little Green Men Games |
 | Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls | · EA older | $29.99 | 487 66% | 15k | $438k (exactly $438,154) | Reason Generator Inc. |
 | Ancient Space | older | $19.99 | 270 42% | 8.1k | $162k (exactly $161,919) | CreativeForge Games |
 | Out of Orbit | · EA older | $14.99 | 166 79% | 5.0k | $75k (exactly $74,650) | Case Yellow Labs |
 | Deep Space Exploitation | $8.99 | 131 96% | 3.9k | $35k (exactly $35,331) | JuhrJuhr | |
 | Cosmic Miners | · EA | $9.99 | 60 53% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,982) | bitByte Games |
 | Leaks In Space | · EA | $14.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Frostech Game Studio |
 | Space Crash Simulator | $9.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | WPC | |
 | Wreckborn | $6.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $4.6k (exactly $4,613) | Krystian Dobaczewski | |
 | Macht: Cosmic Engine | · EA | $24.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $3.7k (exactly $3,748) | Kestro Games |
 | SpaceCraft Brawl | $4.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) | ruploz | |
 | SpaceSteps | · EA | $5.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) | Net Get Games |
 | Gravity Break | · EA | $13.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $839 (exactly $839) | bakspace interactive, Kristian Bak, Dan… (bakspace interactive, Kristian Bak, Daniel Clifton, Nanna Fjord) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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