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Should I ship a Destruction Stealth game?
Destruction + Stealth
Only 3 developers shipped a Destruction Stealth game in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 10 did: 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.. 42 more are announced, ×21 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.4k against a market of $630. 42 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
|---|---|
| Median | $43k (exactly $43,114) |
| Top 25% | $535k (exactly $535,066) |
| Top 5% | $19M (exactly $18,924,068) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 42 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 35%, 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
- Stealth
- 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, Stealth
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 24,261 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 42 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×21 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + God GameFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
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- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Automobile SimPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
Comparable games
Trepang2 2023 · $19M 
DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS 2022 · $4.5M 
Capes 2024 · $535k 
Rain on Your Parade 2021 · $327k 
Crunch Element 2020 · EA · $301k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Trepang2 | older | $39.99 | 15,774 93% | 473k | $19M (exactly $18,924,068) | Trepang Studios |
| | DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS | older | $29.99 | 4,983 50% | 149k | $4.5M (exactly $4,483,205) | Dimps Corporation |
| | Capes | older | $39.99 | 446 67% | 13k | $535k (exactly $535,066) | Spitfire Interactive |
| | Rain on Your Parade | older | $14.99 | 727 96% | 22k | $327k (exactly $326,932) | Unbound Creations |
| | Crunch Element | · EA older | $19.99 | 502 57% | 15k | $301k (exactly $301,049) | Dreamlab XR |
 | Silent Storm Gold Edition | older | $9.99 | 963 88% | 29k | $289k (exactly $288,611) | Nival |
 | Backrooms Break | older | $8.99 | 385 70% | 12k | $104k (exactly $103,834) | Jan Jileček |
 | UberSoldier | older | $4.99 | 288 83% | 8.6k | $43k (exactly $43,114) | Burut CT |
 | Dynamite Jack | older | $9.99 | 128 89% | 3.8k | $38k (exactly $38,362) | Hassey Enterprises, Inc. |
 | GrowRilla VR | older | $7.99 | 65 92% | 2.0k | $16k (exactly $15,580) | Salmi Games |
 | Breakfall: Nuclear Winter | · EA | $17.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $3.8k (exactly $3,778) | Dominik Geuer |
 | Subzero Stealth | · EA | $7.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Verona Interactive |
 | ZOMBIECAM | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ZOMBIECAM Crew |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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