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Should I ship a Destruction Sports game?
Destruction + Sports
Only 9 developers shipped a Destruction Sports 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, Crafty Racer, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×4.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $4.9k, ×7.9 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 33 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) |
| Top 5% | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 70 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 250% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Sports
- 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, Sports
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $5.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 177,653 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 33 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Automobile SimPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
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Need for Speed™ Heat 2020 · $271M 
Wreckfest 2018 · $28M 
Need for Speed™ Rivals 2020 · $5.6M 
Gas Guzzlers Extreme 2013 · $2.3M 
TRAIL OUT 2022 · $1.8M | 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 |
| | Wreckfest | older | $29.99 | 31,390 87% | 942k | $28M (exactly $28,241,583) | Bugbear |
| | Need for Speed™ Rivals | older | $19.99 | 9,265 76% | 278k | $5.6M (exactly $5,556,220) | Criterion Games |
| | Gas Guzzlers Extreme | older | $24.99 | 3,081 86% | 92k | $2.3M (exactly $2,309,826) | Gamepires |
| | TRAIL OUT | older | $19.99 | 3,019 81% | 91k | $1.8M (exactly $1,810,494) | GOOD BOYS |
 | Ridge Racer™ Unbounded | older | $9.99 | 1,159 64% | 35k | $347k (exactly $347,352) | BUGBEAR |
 | Monster Jam™ Showdown | older | $49.99 | 213 71% | 6.4k | $319k (exactly $319,436) | Milestone S.r.l. |
 | Monster Truck Championship | older | $39.99 | 142 75% | 4.3k | $170k (exactly $170,357) | Teyon |
 | Gym Manager | older | $9.99 | 306 80% | 9.2k | $92k (exactly $91,708) | Han GAMES |
 | Dangerous Golf | older | $19.99 | 145 73% | 4.4k | $87k (exactly $86,956) | Three Fields Entertainment |
 | Crafty Racer | · EA | $14.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) | Peterclark |
 | Super Power Racing | · EA | $6.50 | 15 100% | 450 | $2.9k (exactly $2,925) | Monster Finger Games |
 | Wreckage | · EA | $12.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) | Jupiter Lighthouse Games |
 | Carnage Battle Arena | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Boombit | |
 | Landslip | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Pixel Doctrine | |
 | Excavator Simulator REMAKE | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | idris Celik | |
 | FloorBreaker | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | PotGames | |
 | Apple Shoot | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hard Shark Games |
 | Rush or Die | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 朱莹 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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