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Should I ship a Supernatural Destruction game?
Destruction + Supernatural
Only 4 developers shipped a Supernatural Destruction game in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 9 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.. 15 more are announced, ×15 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 0 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $960 against a market of $630. 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $896 (exactly $896) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) |
| Top 25% | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) |
| Top 5% | $28k (exactly $27,674) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 28%, 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
- Supernatural
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Destruction
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 2,389 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 15 games are announced against 0 developers who shipped in the last year, ×15 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Destruction with a different setting or mood, 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
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Vindefiant 2025 · $14k 
SKULL CHAINZ 2022 · $9.6k 
They Are Coming! 2022 · $9.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered | older | $24.99 | 2,069 90% | 62k | $1.6M (exactly $1,551,129) | Saber Interactive |
| | ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH | older | $5.99 | 154 80% | 4.6k | $28k (exactly $27,674) | jounitus |
| | Vindefiant | $14.99 | 31 80% | 930 | $14k (exactly $13,941) | Blakey Games | |
| | SKULL CHAINZ | older | $9.99 | 32 93% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | Chaoclypse |
| | They Are Coming! | older | $9.99 | 32 50% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | Wild Pepper Games |
 | Cactus Cowboy - Desert Warfare | older | $9.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Cactus VR Studios |
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 | Spin the World | older | $4.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | RexTo Studios |
 | Midnight Manor | older | $2.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) | Travis Maynard |
 | Marimo-VS-IAS | older | $8.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.1k (exactly $1,079) | JoyPlot |
 | Last Stronghold | $3.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | skR1me | |
 | Super Kingcrab Simulator | $1.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $537 (exactly $537) | !CyberApex (SkagoGames) | |
 | Nuclear Lizard Island Rampage | $2.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Andrew Connelly |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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