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Should I ship a Collectathon Hunting game?
Hunting + Collectathon
Only 9 developers shipped a Collectathon Hunting 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, Hachishaku, 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, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.7k against a market of $630. 14 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.7k (exactly $2,652) |
| Top 25% | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) |
| Top 5% | $137k (exactly $136,663) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 125% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than 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.
- Hunting
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Collectathon
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting, Collectathon
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $15.99 or above; the middle game at $5.20.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 2,256 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + BuildingPoor odds
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Comparable games
Penko Park 2020 · $253k 
9th Dawn III 2020 · $240k 
Morels: The Hunt 2019 · $156k 
Hachishaku 2025 · $137k 
ScrewUp 2021 · $78k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Penko Park | older | $13.99 | 602 98% | 18k | $253k (exactly $252,659) | Ghostbutter |
| | 9th Dawn III | older | $15.99 | 501 87% | 15k | $240k (exactly $240,330) | Valorware |
| | Morels: The Hunt | older | $19.99 | 260 86% | 7.8k | $156k (exactly $155,922) | Abrams Studios |
| | Hachishaku | $9.99 | 456 85% | 14k | $137k (exactly $136,663) | Trash Panda Games | |
| | ScrewUp | older | $9.99 | 259 68% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | 199 Cents STUDIO |
 | Goblins Strike Back -Instant Fuck Heroines- | older | $14.99 | 44 75% | 1.3k | $20k (exactly $19,787) | Ketchup AjiNo Mayonnaise |
 | EXELIO | · EA | $19.99 | 17 64% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | AI Frog Interactive, Inc. |
 | Open Fishing XL | older | $4.99 | 45 86% | 1.4k | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) | Kunstaat |
 | Isles of Silence | · EA older | $5.99 | 29 86% | 870 | $5.2k (exactly $5,211) | Lonely Frontier Studio |
 | Island Raft Survival 2021: Ocean Escape | · EA older | $2.99 | 43 37% | 1.3k | $3.9k (exactly $3,857) | Francolins studio |
 | The Shape Killer - Sniper Game | $4.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) | SouthBoxStudio | |
 | Morels: Out of this World | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Abrams Studios LLC | |
 | My First Craft Survival | $5.20 | 17 70% | 510 | $2.7k (exactly $2,652) | kuriemeiku | |
 | The Hunter's Path | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | JustWallWireHead Games | |
 | Peaceful Bug Catching Story | $11.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $719 (exactly $719) | SAT-BOX | |
 | Runimals | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Mighty Marv Games | |
 | Chickeat Catch | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Yamei Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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