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Should I ship a Dinosaur Character Customization game?
Character Customization + Dinosaurs
Only 18 developers shipped a Dinosaur Character Customization 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, Amber Isle, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.5k, ×2.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $1.3M, ×2113 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 33 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 25% | $9.0k (exactly $8,994) |
| Top 5% | $1.3M (exactly $1,326,969) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 down 50% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Dinosaurs
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Character Customization; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Exploration, Action
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Third Person, 3D, Cozy
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 2,700 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 33 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
ARK: Survival Ascended 2023 · EA · $144M 
Exoprimal 2023 · $4.6M 
Age of Wonders: Planetfall 2019 · $4.3M 
Primal Carnage: Extinction 2015 · $3.2M 
Paleo Pines 2023 · $1.9M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | ARK: Survival Ascended | · EA older | $44.99 | 106,761 60% | 3.2M | $144M (exactly $144,095,322) | Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, In… (Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games) |
| | Exoprimal | older | $59.99 | 2,581 76% | 77k | $4.6M (exactly $4,645,026) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | Age of Wonders: Planetfall | older | $29.99 | 4,758 80% | 143k | $4.3M (exactly $4,280,773) | Triumph Studios |
| | Primal Carnage: Extinction | older | $12.99 | 8,283 84% | 248k | $3.2M (exactly $3,227,885) | Circle Five Studios, Pub Games |
| | Paleo Pines | older | $29.99 | 2,099 83% | 63k | $1.9M (exactly $1,888,470) | Italic Pig |
 | Amber Isle | $24.99 | 1,770 82% | 53k | $1.3M (exactly $1,326,969) | Ambertail Games | |
 | DDinosaur with Double D's | $6.99 | 771 97% | 23k | $162k (exactly $161,679) | Kud | |
 | Isles of Yore | · EA older | $19.99 | 127 69% | 3.8k | $76k (exactly $76,162) | MaverickMatryoshka |
 | Gigapocalypse | older | $9.99 | 204 92% | 6.1k | $61k (exactly $61,139) | Goody Gameworks |
 | DinoSystem | · EA older | $7.99 | 247 92% | 7.4k | $59k (exactly $59,206) | Daniele Ferraro |
 | Primeval | $14.99 | 75 60% | 2.3k | $34k (exactly $33,728) | Exhibyte | |
 | PAW Patrol™: Dino World | $39.99 | 14 64% | 420 | $17k (exactly $16,796) | 3DClouds | |
 | Skyfear | · EA | $14.99 | 20 95% | 600 | $9.0k (exactly $8,994) | Protoria Studios |
 | 4 Classes, Many Paths | $9.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | J. C. SpringBourne | |
 | ErMa (Early Mammal) | $7.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | AlmyriganHero | |
 | Fire Boy | $6.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | Caraca Games | |
 | Roxy Raccoon 3: Troubles in Time | $9.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Sinomod Studios | |
 | Dino-Might | · EA | $4.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Absolutely Not Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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