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Should I ship a Mythological Collectathon game?
Collectathon + Mythology
Only 18 developers shipped a Mythological 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, Digimon Story Time Stranger, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.4k, ×3.8 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $150. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 20 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) |
| Top 25% | $78k (exactly $77,969) |
| Top 5% | $33M (exactly $33,269,746) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 20 |
| 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 10% on the market, supply 10% 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.
- Collectathon
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Mythology
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Collectathon; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Action RPG, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $69.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Pixel Graphics, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $69.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 16,919 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 10 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
- + CrimeFair
- + Level EditorFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + SokobanFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + ModernFair
Comparable games
Digimon Story Time Stranger 2025 · $33M 
Isles of Sea and Sky 2024 · $922k 
Samurai Bringer 2022 · $303k 
Super Kiwi 64 2022 · $162k 
Tiny Thor 2023 · $124k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Digimon Story Time Stranger | $69.99 | 15,845 89% | 475k | $33M (exactly $33,269,746) | Media.Vision Inc. | |
| | Isles of Sea and Sky | older | $19.99 | 1,538 91% | 46k | $922k (exactly $922,339) | Cicada Games |
| | Samurai Bringer | older | $9.99 | 1,012 87% | 30k | $303k (exactly $303,296) | ALPHAWING Inc. |
| | Super Kiwi 64 | older | $2.99 | 1,805 95% | 54k | $162k (exactly $161,908) | Siactro |
| | Tiny Thor | older | $19.99 | 207 79% | 6.2k | $124k (exactly $124,138) | Asylum Square |
 | Skábma™ - Snowfall | older | $19.99 | 191 81% | 5.7k | $115k (exactly $114,543) | Red Stage Entertainment |
 | Cultivation Magic World | · EA | $12.99 | 276 78% | 8.3k | $108k (exactly $107,557) | DMG Studio |
 | The Girl from Arkanya | $19.99 | 153 92% | 4.6k | $92k (exactly $91,754) | Arkanya Games | |
 | Mosaic of The Pharaohs | $8.99 | 297 92% | 8.9k | $80k (exactly $80,101) | Mark Ffrench | |
 | Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island | $24.99 | 104 93% | 3.1k | $78k (exactly $77,969) | Polygon Treehouse | |
 | XiuzhenWorld2 | $12.99 | 134 67% | 4.0k | $52k (exactly $52,220) | Noforgetit | |
 | Knock on Fate：The Guardian Pusher | $5.99 | 58 87% | 1.7k | $10k (exactly $10,423) | 刚正面的红领巾 | |
 | The Hundred Youkai Master | $11.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | OCG S studio, OCG FCGD Division | |
 | Arrows and Antiquity | $4.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | True Neutral Studios | |
 | Where's my Bara Deck? | $1.99 | 24 87% | 720 | $1.4k (exactly $1,433) | Kopon Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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