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Should I ship a Dragon Collectathon game?
Collectathon + Dragons
Only 16 developers shipped a Dragon 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, Tasty Planet: Final Bite, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.0k, ×8.0 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $840; 1 in 20 cleared $38k, ×62 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 23 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $838 (exactly $838) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) |
| Top 25% | $17k (exactly $16,892) |
| Top 5% | $39k (exactly $38,970) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 55% on the market, supply 225% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Dragons
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Collectathon
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 462 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $840. 23 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Collectathon with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + EconomyFair
- + ManagementFair
- + CrimeFair
- + Level EditorFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + SokobanFair
- + MythologyFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Combat RacingFair
Comparable games
Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy 2019 · $17M 
DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince 2024 · $1.4M 
Dragon Spirits 2023 · $87k 
Beasts of Maravilla Island 2021 · $77k 
Dragon Spirits 2 2024 · $57k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy | older | $39.99 | 14,211 92% | 426k | $17M (exactly $17,048,937) | Toys for Bob, Iron Galaxy Studios |
| | DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince | older | $39.99 | 1,158 71% | 35k | $1.4M (exactly $1,389,253) | Square Enix |
| | Dragon Spirits | older | $9.99 | 289 86% | 8.7k | $87k (exactly $86,613) | FHNBHJ |
| | Beasts of Maravilla Island | older | $9.99 | 256 84% | 7.7k | $77k (exactly $76,723) | Banana Bird Studios, LLC |
| | Dragon Spirits 2 | older | $13.99 | 137 84% | 4.1k | $57k (exactly $57,499) | FHNBHJ |
 | Tasty Planet: Final Bite | $12.99 | 100 90% | 3.0k | $39k (exactly $38,970) | Dingo Games | |
 | Loot Hero DX | older | $2.99 | 338 71% | 10k | $30k (exactly $30,319) | VaragtP |
 | Dragon Forge | older | $9.99 | 72 38% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,578) | Legend Studio |
 | Pet Lands | $14.99 | 47 46% | 1.4k | $21k (exactly $21,136) | Tbjbu2, Adria Martinez Exposito | |
 | Kit's Quest | older | $14.99 | 45 93% | 1.4k | $20k (exactly $20,236) | Lone Fox Games |
 | Lunars | · EA | $14.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Anubis Arts |
 | Familiar Findings | $5.99 | 94 96% | 2.8k | $17k (exactly $16,892) | Cliffa Games | |
 | AFKandia - Epoch of Idle | $5.99 | 66 45% | 2.0k | $12k (exactly $11,860) | Yang++ Game Studio | |
 | Knock on Fate：The Guardian Pusher | $5.99 | 58 87% | 1.7k | $10k (exactly $10,423) | 刚正面的红领巾 | |
 | The Phoenix Gene VR | $24.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $7.5k (exactly $7,497) | HEROmation | |
 | DungeonSweeper | $7.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) | Smoketree Studios | |
 | One more gem | $15.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $3.4k (exactly $3,358) | Cosmin Munteanu | |
 | Finding Dragons | $2.99 | 19 89% | 570 | $1.7k (exactly $1,704) | Akaizergames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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