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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Choose Your Own Adventure
Of 27 developers who shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure 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.. 45 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×3.0 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $300; 1 in 20 cleared $200k, ×328 the market median. Revenue is down 85% on the market; 45 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $297 (exactly $297) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,915) |
| Top 25% | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) |
| Top 5% | $206k (exactly $205,963) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 27 |
| Released games | 73 |
| Announced | 45 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 25% more 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.
- Creature Collector
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Creature Collector, Choose Your Own Adventure; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Simulation, Adventure
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cute, Relaxing, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 1,368 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 9 in 10 of the 16 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 45 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Creature Collector with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + CapitalismFair
- + LootFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + SpaceFair
- + ZombiesFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Mamon King 2025 · $235k 
Lugh World 2026 · EA · $206k 
Athenian Rhapsody 2024 · $144k 
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One 2022 · $85k 
Hole Dweller 2024 · $62k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mamon King | $12.99 | 603 90% | 18k | $235k (exactly $234,989) | LiTMUS Co., Ltd. | |
| | Lugh World | · EA | $14.99 | 458 68% | 14k | $206k (exactly $205,963) | Lughsoft |
| | Athenian Rhapsody | older | $14.99 | 320 91% | 9.6k | $144k (exactly $143,904) | Nico Papalia |
| | Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One | older | $9.99 | 283 92% | 8.5k | $85k (exactly $84,815) | Westwood Associates, Strategic Simulati… (Westwood Associates, Strategic Simulations) |
| | Hole Dweller | older | $7.99 | 260 96% | 7.8k | $62k (exactly $62,322) | Thigh High Games |
 | Pawsome Resort | · EA | $11.99 | 147 83% | 4.4k | $53k (exactly $52,876) | Pixel Puffs |
 | Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim | older | $9.99 | 87 88% | 2.6k | $26k (exactly $26,074) | Squiddershins |
 | 你农哦农-Need Know What Know | older | $4.99 | 134 85% | 4.0k | $20k (exactly $20,060) | Kwing works |
 | 100 hidden eternals | older | $0.99 | 624 92% | 19k | $19k (exactly $18,533) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh |
 | Sex with a Vampire 🧛♂️❤️ | older | $6.99 | 83 57% | 2.5k | $17k (exactly $17,405) | Metroneck |
 | Wild Alone | $10.99 | 38 47% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,529) | Wild Alone 21 | |
 | Damsels in Distress | $8.99 | 36 83% | 1.1k | $9.7k (exactly $9,709) | Anime Mania | |
 | Cosmic Coop | $7.99 | 32 78% | 960 | $7.7k (exactly $7,670) | Omnivorian | |
 | Platform 6 ONLINE | 6番線オンライン協力異変探し | $9.99 | 18 83% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | MFC STUDIO, SHINISE GAMES, KOSEI YASUDA | |
 | D.A.M. Champion | $9.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Ikari Creative | |
 | Forsaken Valley | $9.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | KineticFox | |
 | Idyllic cats: Japan | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | GameRED indie |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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