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Should I ship an Action Roguelike Creature Collector?

Creature Collector + Action Roguelike

Of 39 developers who shipped an Action Roguelike Creature Collector in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 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., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 54 more are announced.

Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.

The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.8 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $300. Revenue is up 1690% on the market; 54 games are announced against 33 developers who shipped in the last year.

Deciding numbers: median 2.8 times the market baseline, revenue up 1690% on the market, 54 announced, ×1.6 per developer who shipped in the last year.
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Creature Collector + Action Roguelike
Fig. 1 · this niche among 16,100
Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr n = 39
Median est. gross by half-year cohort, 2023 H1 to 2026 H2: $3.0k → $1.7k → $2.9k → $599 (still earning) → $47k (still earning)
The last cohort is still earning.
Outcomes for Creature Collector + Action Roguelike: Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr, n = 39
Bottom 30% $299 (exactly $299)
Median $1.8k (exactly $1,786)
Top 25% $44k (exactly $44,356)
Top 5% $619k (exactly $618,787)
Developers, 2 yr 39
Released games 67
Announced 54
Effort 5 / 10
AI-buildability Medium
Typical price $7.99

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 1690% on the market, supply 450% more developers than the period before.

Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.

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Plate 2 · systems and tooling

Can AI deliver it?

AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.

Creature Collector
effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
Action Roguelike
effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band

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Plate 3 · the cost side

What it takes

Effort
5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
Systems
Creature Collector, Action Roguelike; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Roguelite, Action, Roguelike
Price point
$7.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
Art
3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Cute, 3D
Plate 4 · demand

Why players buy here

The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.

The top 10 games average 81% positive over 7,415 reviews.

Plate 5 · the loss side

What kills games here

Developer outcomes in the last 2 years by share: 3 in 10 under $300, median $1.8k, 1 in 4 over $44k, 1 in 20 over $610k.

3 in 10 developers made under $300. 8 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 54 games are announced against 33 developers who shipped in the last year.

Plate 6 · same mechanic, other settings

Adjacent niches

Creature Collector with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.

  1. + Perma DeathFair30 devs · median $5.3k · 33 announced
  2. + Bullet HellFair24 devs · median $3.4k · 33 announced
  3. + CapitalismFair38 devs · median $3.2k · 38 announced
  4. + LootFair51 devs · median $2.9k · 67 announced
  5. + IdlerFair248 devs · median $2.1k · 260 announced
  6. + IncrementalFair177 devs · median $1.9k · 191 announced
  7. + SpaceFair30 devs · median $1.5k · 39 announced
  8. + ZombiesFair14 devs · median $1.5k · 10 announced
  9. + ArcadeFair73 devs · median $629 · 85 announced
  10. + Co-opPoor odds31 devs · median $28k · 82 announced
  11. + Dating SimPoor odds14 devs · median $23k · 43 announced
  12. + MusicPoor odds12 devs · median $16k · 11 announced

All 133 pairs on the Creature Collector page

Plate 7 · comparable specimens, by est. revenue

Comparable games

Temtem: Swarm 2026 · $969k Patch Quest 2023 · $925k Anomaly President 2026 · EA · $619k Rustil: Eternal Labyrinth Castle 2026 · $541k Dinotica 2026 · $403k
Capsule Game Released Price Reviews Est. copies Est. revenue Developer
Temtem: Swarm $12.99 2,487 77% 75k $969k (exactly $969,184) Crema, GGTech Studios
Patch Quest older $14.99 2,058 94% 62k $925k (exactly $925,483) Lychee Game Labs
Anomaly President · EA $14.99 1,376 91% 41k $619k (exactly $618,787) Phew Phew Games
Rustil: Eternal Labyrinth Castle $18.99 950 71% 29k $541k (exactly $541,215) KTMG LLC.
Dinotica $17.99 746 86% 22k $403k (exactly $402,616) XA Studio
Morsels $14.99 552 75% 17k $248k (exactly $248,234) Furcula
Start an egg · EA older $15.99 332 77% 10k $159k (exactly $159,260) Ting Game
DreamEcho $11.99 369 79% 11k $133k (exactly $132,729) HotWaterStudio
Shard Squad $6.99 512 82% 15k $107k (exactly $107,366) The Root Studios
Evolings older $4.99 379 77% 11k $57k (exactly $56,736) Sørb
Flock of the Seraphim $9.99 162 85% 4.9k $49k (exactly $48,551) GuuchanDev
Nimbit Frontier · EA $13.99 113 97% 3.4k $47k (exactly $47,426) Megasploot
Identifile: Desktop Dungeon · EA $9.99 148 91% 4.4k $44k (exactly $44,356) Gearbyte Games

Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.