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Should I ship a Split Screen Destruction game?
Destruction + Split Screen
Only 9 developers shipped a Split Screen 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, Wreckreation, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 31 more are announced, ×7.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $10k against a market of $630. 31 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $10k (exactly $10,190) |
| Top 25% | $11k (exactly $10,928) |
| Top 5% | $432k (exactly $431,892) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 31 |
| 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 up 585% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- Split Screen
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Destruction, Split Screen
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 192,107 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 31 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.8 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
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Need for Speed™ 2020 · $23M 
Need for Speed™ Rivals 2020 · $5.6M 
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Burnout™ Paradise Remastered 2020 · $4.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Need for Speed™ Heat | older | $69.99 | 128,933 84% | 3.9M | $271M (exactly $270,720,620) | Ghost Games |
| | Need for Speed™ | older | $29.99 | 25,443 69% | 763k | $23M (exactly $22,891,067) | Ghost Games |
| | Need for Speed™ Rivals | older | $19.99 | 9,265 76% | 278k | $5.6M (exactly $5,556,220) | Criterion Games |
| | EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair | older | $19.99 | 7,776 95% | 233k | $4.7M (exactly $4,663,267) | SANDLOT |
| | Burnout™ Paradise Remastered | older | $19.99 | 7,348 64% | 220k | $4.4M (exactly $4,406,596) | Stellar Entertainment, Criterion Games |
 | Worms Ultimate Mayhem | older | $14.99 | 4,303 89% | 129k | $1.9M (exactly $1,935,059) | Team17 Digital Ltd |
 | Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ | older | $14.99 | 2,792 90% | 84k | $1.3M (exactly $1,255,562) | ACE Team |
 | Split/Second | older | $19.99 | 1,683 80% | 50k | $1.0M (exactly $1,009,295) | Black Rock Studio |
 | Rock of Ages | older | $9.99 | 3,364 92% | 101k | $1.0M (exactly $1,008,191) | ACE Team |
 | DAVIGO: VR vs. PC | · EA older | $24.99 | 1,200 84% | 36k | $900k (exactly $899,640) | Davigo Studio |
 | Wreckreation | $39.99 | 360 63% | 11k | $432k (exactly $431,892) | Three Fields Entertainment | |
 | Tasty Planet: Final Bite | $12.99 | 100 90% | 3.0k | $39k (exactly $38,970) | Dingo Games | |
 | Spaceflux | $4.99 | 73 57% | 2.2k | $11k (exactly $10,928) | Calin Ardelean | |
 | Galactic Thunderdome | $9.99 | 35 100% | 1.1k | $10k (exactly $10,490) | Pansimula | |
 | Chaos on Wheels | $9.99 | 34 67% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | Acodeon Development | |
 | Death Metal Derby | $14.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) | Turtle Duck Studio | |
 | Ball Blast | $5.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | VOODOO | |
 | Explosive Track - Crazy Action Arcade Racing | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | UY Studios | |
 | Tiny Wrecks | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Kaivor Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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