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Should I ship a Heist Collectathon game?
Collectathon + Heist
Only 5 developers shipped a Heist 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, Snap & Grab, 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, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $0 against a market of $630. 14 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 5% | $14k (exactly $13,903) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 25 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 32%, 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
- Heist
- 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; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Exploration, Choices Matter
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Colorful, Cartoony
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 2,699 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 14 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Collectathon with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + CapitalismStrong odds
- + Turn-BasedFair
- + EconomyFair
- + ManagementFair
- + CrimeFair
- + Level EditorFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + SokobanFair
- + MythologyFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Combat RacingFair
Comparable games
Boo Men 2022 · EA · $500k 
Sunshine Shuffle 2023 · $47k 
Snap & Grab 2026 · $14k 
My Dictator Stalin Can't Be This Cute ?! 2024 · $13k 
The Story of The Flood 2022 · $6.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Boo Men | · EA older | $7.99 | 2,088 88% | 63k | $500k (exactly $500,494) | Twisted Corridor👻 |
| | Sunshine Shuffle | older | $9.99 | 156 76% | 4.7k | $47k (exactly $46,753) | Strange Scaffold |
| | Snap & Grab | $7.99 | 58 91% | 1.7k | $14k (exactly $13,903) | No Goblin | |
| | My Dictator Stalin Can't Be This Cute ?! | older | $1.49 | 285 92% | 8.6k | $13k (exactly $12,740) | uwucorp |
| | The Story of The Flood | older | $4.99 | 43 67% | 1.3k | $6.4k (exactly $6,437) | ZHANG FAN |
 | 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 |
 | Tumblefire | · EA older | $9.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | Lost Rabbit Digital |
 | The Thief | older | $19.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | GamesBraz |
 | Fire Thief | older | $4.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Anthony Rietkerk |
 | The Key | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hetosoft Sistemas | |
 | Burgleville | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Raymond Williams | |
 | 进化岛：Jinhuadao | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 古德模型, goodmoxing | |
 | Stabby Redux | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Soaring Roc Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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