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Should I ship a Time Management Destruction game?
Destruction + Time Management
Only 9 developers shipped a Time Management 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, Holiday Motel Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 41 more are announced, ×8.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180 in the last 2 years and $30 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 41 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $2.0k (exactly $1,977) |
| Top 5% | $19k (exactly $19,095) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 41 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 10650% on the market, supply 25% more 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
- Time Management
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Destruction, Time Management
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $12.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 953 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 41 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×8.2 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
Comparable games
Arena Renovation 2024 · $173k 
T-Minus 30 2021 · $51k 
BoomTown! Deluxe 2016 · $35k 
Beeftacular 2016 · $23k 
Holiday Motel Simulator 2025 · EA · $19k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Arena Renovation | older | $19.99 | 289 65% | 8.7k | $173k (exactly $173,313) | Nesalis Games |
| | T-Minus 30 | older | $9.99 | 170 92% | 5.1k | $51k (exactly $50,949) | Dejobaan Games, Grey Alien Games |
| | BoomTown! Deluxe | older | $5.99 | 196 84% | 5.9k | $35k (exactly $35,221) | Ish Games |
| | Beeftacular | older | $6.99 | 111 81% | 3.3k | $23k (exactly $23,277) | Retrific |
| | Holiday Motel Simulator | · EA | $12.99 | 49 63% | 1.5k | $19k (exactly $19,095) | Red Phoenix Interactive |
 | Kamikaze Veggies | older | $9.99 | 34 88% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | Red Limb Studio |
 | Rift Miner | $7.99 | 31 93% | 930 | $7.4k (exactly $7,431) | TIDERAFT | |
 | Rescue Team: Planet Savers | older | $6.99 | 23 95% | 690 | $4.8k (exactly $4,823) | GameMixer |
 | Rescue Team: Power Eaters | older | $6.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | Game Mixer |
 | Give Me More Pills | older | $1.99 | 34 91% | 1.0k | $2.0k (exactly $2,030) | DIG Games |
 | Tilebreaker Next Level | $5.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $2.0k (exactly $1,977) | Square Wheel | |
 | Chaos Constructors | · EA | $5.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | Oğuz Furkan Yaprak, İbrahim Anapali |
 | Falseflash | $1.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Blackscale Studios | |
 | Abrez | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Suss… (Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Sussanne Beaujeu, T.Beaujeu) | |
 | The MeowPao | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | SupKai | |
 | Heroes of Higher Realms | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DreamMasters Studio | |
 | bubble | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | prefowl |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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