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Should I ship a Crime Collectathon game?
Collectathon + Crime
Only 10 developers shipped a Crime Collectathon 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, Baking Bad, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.4k, ×5.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $320. Revenue is up 4510% on the market; 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $314 (exactly $314) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) |
| Top 25% | $14k (exactly $13,903) |
| Top 5% | $41k (exactly $40,553) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 14 |
| 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 4510% on the market, supply 135% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Collectathon
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Crime
- 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
- Collectathon
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 66% positive over 284 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $320. 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Collectathon with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + CapitalismStrong odds
- + Turn-BasedFair
- + EconomyFair
- + ManagementFair
- + Level EditorFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + SokobanFair
- + MythologyFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + ModernFair
Comparable games
Squirrel with a Gun 2024 · $1.9M 
Baking Bad 2026 · EA · $41k 
Blood Facsimile 2026 · EA · $32k 
The Dope Game 2016 · $28k 
Mexico, 1921. A Deep Slumber. 2024 · $27k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Squirrel with a Gun | older | $19.99 | 3,112 86% | 93k | $1.9M (exactly $1,866,266) | Dee Dee Creations LLC |
| | Baking Bad | · EA | $10.99 | 123 32% | 3.7k | $41k (exactly $40,553) | FunkyArmor |
| | Blood Facsimile | · EA | $17.99 | 59 98% | 1.8k | $32k (exactly $31,842) | Rene McCarthy |
| | The Dope Game | older | $4.99 | 188 79% | 5.6k | $28k (exactly $28,144) | Tenth&Hess Games |
| | Mexico, 1921. A Deep Slumber. | older | $19.99 | 45 86% | 1.4k | $27k (exactly $26,986) | Mácula Interactive |
 | Snap & Grab | $7.99 | 58 91% | 1.7k | $14k (exactly $13,903) | No Goblin | |
 | Unwelcome | older | $6.99 | 64 79% | 1.9k | $13k (exactly $13,421) | White Blanket Games |
 | Do A Crime | $14.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Collywobble Games | |
 | Hacker Man | older | $19.99 | 8 12% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | GamesBraz |
 | Bank Robber | older | $2.99 | 47 68% | 1.4k | $4.2k (exactly $4,216) | Softwaves |
 | The Shape Killer - Sniper Game | $4.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) | SouthBoxStudio | |
 | Bjois | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Technolithic Softworks | |
 | hEvEN oN sNOrF | $3.49 | 3 100% | 90 | $314 (exactly $314) | Majao Games | |
 | Mary | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Pinster Games | |
 | The Silent Witness | $2.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Abnormal Studios | |
 | 悪人悪華 - AKUNIN-AKKA - | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | moutardelog |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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