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Should I ship a Hidden Object 6DOF game?
6DOF + Hidden Object
Only 19 developers shipped a Hidden Object 6DOF 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, Forest Doesn’t Care, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.1k, ×1.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $100k, ×168 the market median. Revenue is up 265% on the market; 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
| Top 25% | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) |
| Top 5% | $105k (exactly $105,345) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 72 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 265% on the market, supply 55% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 6DOF
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Hidden Object
- effort 2 / 10 · high · static scenes with click targets
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF, Hidden Object; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Exploration, Adventure, Logic
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Atmospheric, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 412 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 9 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
6DOF with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RoguelikeFair
- + TacticalFair
- + RobotsFair
- + WarFair
- + Dark FantasyFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + RhythmPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
PANELKI 2022 · $576k 
Panoptic 2020 · $143k 
Disassembly VR 2019 · $141k 
Forest Doesn’t Care 2025 · $105k 
BRINK Traveler 2021 · $85k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | PANELKI | older | $7.99 | 2,404 86% | 72k | $576k (exactly $576,239) | Alexander Gromyko |
| | Panoptic | older | $16.99 | 281 96% | 8.4k | $143k (exactly $143,226) | Team Panoptes |
| | Disassembly VR | older | $29.99 | 157 59% | 4.7k | $141k (exactly $141,253) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | Forest Doesn’t Care | $13.99 | 251 65% | 7.5k | $105k (exactly $105,345) | MOROZ GAMES | |
| | BRINK Traveler | older | $14.99 | 188 87% | 5.6k | $85k (exactly $84,544) | BRINK XR |
 | Floor Plan 2 VR | older | $29.99 | 75 90% | 2.3k | $67k (exactly $67,478) | Turbo Button |
 | Floor Plan VR | older | $5.99 | 117 88% | 3.5k | $21k (exactly $21,025) | Turbo Button |
 | Huge Jaws | older | $24.99 | 23 65% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | Piece Of Voxel |
 | LiveStream: Chapter One | $7.00 | 77 89% | 2.3k | $16k (exactly $16,170) | Artflux_Games | |
 | NMNE | older | $9.99 | 52 78% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $15,584) | AK Studio |
 | Eco Volunteer | $11.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $9.0k (exactly $8,992) | Scope Creepers | |
 | Another Door: Escape Room | $19.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | SKONEC Entertainment, YOUCANSTAR | |
 | Phantom Asylum VR | · EA | $9.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | SRVR |
 | Doggy Up! | $3.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | Feas | |
 | Grand Donald Trump Simulator | $6.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) | Nuke Island Games | |
 | Mole a Hole | $6.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $1.3k (exactly $1,258) | Wenkly Studio | |
 | Data Rot | $9.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Nekomata Games LLC | |
 | BodyPanic | $5.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | MD |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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