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Should I ship a Character Customization Creature Collector?
Character Customization + Creature Collector
Of 129 developers who shipped a Character Customization 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.. 254 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.6k, ×5.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $1.1M, ×1770 the market median. Revenue is up 115% on the market; 254 games are announced against 78 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
| Top 25% | $58k (exactly $58,233) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,111,805) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 129 |
| Released games | 245 |
| Announced | 254 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 115% on the market, supply 55% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Character Customization
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Creature Collector
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Character Customization, Creature Collector; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Adventure, Exploration
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cute, Colorful, Relaxing
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 91,202 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 7 in 10 of the 63 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 254 games are announced against 78 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Temtem 2022 · $42M 
Digimon Story Time Stranger 2025 · $33M 
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin 2021 · $14M 
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection 2026 · $12M 
WEBFISHING 2024 · $8.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Temtem | older | $44.99 | 31,263 82% | 938k | $42M (exactly $42,195,671) | Crema |
| | Digimon Story Time Stranger | $69.99 | 15,845 89% | 475k | $33M (exactly $33,269,746) | Media.Vision Inc. | |
| | Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin | older | $39.99 | 11,845 82% | 355k | $14M (exactly $14,210,446) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection | $69.99 | 5,605 77% | 168k | $12M (exactly $11,768,818) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. | |
| | WEBFISHING | $4.99 | 57,353 97% | 1.7M | $8.6M (exactly $8,585,744) | lamedeveloper | |
 | Spirit City: Lofi Sessions | older | $11.99 | 15,211 97% | 456k | $5.5M (exactly $5,471,397) | Mooncube Games |
 | Digimon World: Next Order | older | $59.99 | 2,331 80% | 70k | $4.2M (exactly $4,195,101) | HYDE, Inc. |
 | Soul Hackers 2 | older | $59.99 | 2,300 65% | 69k | $4.1M (exactly $4,139,310) | ATLUS |
 | Coromon | older | $19.99 | 6,327 85% | 190k | $3.8M (exactly $3,794,302) | TRAGsoft |
 | Voidling Bound | $24.99 | 3,126 92% | 94k | $2.3M (exactly $2,343,562) | Hatchery Games | |
 | Towers of Aghasba | · EA | $29.99 | 1,904 67% | 57k | $1.7M (exactly $1,713,029) | Dreamlit inc. |
 | Wicked Island | · EA | $34.99 | 1,194 76% | 36k | $1.3M (exactly $1,253,342) | RawDarkness |
 | Beastieball | · EA | $24.99 | 1,483 97% | 44k | $1.1M (exactly $1,111,805) | Wishes Ultd. |
 | Ithya: Magic Studies | $10.99 | 2,103 97% | 63k | $693k (exactly $693,359) | BlueTurtle | |
 | Anomaly President | · EA | $14.99 | 1,376 91% | 41k | $619k (exactly $618,787) | Phew Phew Games |
 | JASON, Coming of Age | $14.99 | 1,213 83% | 36k | $545k (exactly $545,486) | Coeur de cochon |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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