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Should I ship a Noir Collectathon game?
Collectathon + Noir
Only 10 developers shipped a Noir 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, Mosaic of the Strange, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×3.8 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $450. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 10 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
| Top 25% | $2.8k (exactly $2,792) |
| Top 5% | $88k (exactly $88,072) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, 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
- Noir
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Collectathon
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 92% positive over 394 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 10 games are announced against 8 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
- + MythologyFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Combat RacingFair
Comparable games
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 2020 · $160k 
Mosaic of the Strange 2025 · $88k 
Sunshine Shuffle 2023 · $47k 
moonchrome. 2025 · $7.3k 
Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came 2018 · $4.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 | older | $9.99 | 533 98% | 16k | $160k (exactly $159,740) | Cosmo D |
| | Mosaic of the Strange | $12.99 | 226 92% | 6.8k | $88k (exactly $88,072) | Mark Ffrench | |
| | Sunshine Shuffle | older | $9.99 | 156 76% | 4.7k | $47k (exactly $46,753) | Strange Scaffold |
| | moonchrome. | $10.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $7.3k (exactly $7,253) | upa=宇羽 | |
| | Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came | older | $9.99 | 15 53% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Graphium Studio |
 | Alexey's Winter: Night Adventure | older | $6.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $4.2k (exactly $4,194) | Nezhysoft |
 | Find Cats in the Casino | $0.99 | 94 94% | 2.8k | $2.8k (exactly $2,792) | MeowSignal | |
 | Gunma's Ambition -You and me are Gunma- Reiwa 2nd national census edition | $3.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $2.2k (exactly $2,155) | RucKyGAMES | |
 | Brie Parmesan Mysteries | · EA older | $6.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $2.1k (exactly $2,097) | Rat Pack Games |
 | Beasts Shall Rise | · EA older | $11.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Goblin Games Ltd |
 | Aerial_Knight's MrFreezy | $4.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Aerial_Knight | |
 | The Lion Gambles Everything He Owns | $0.99 | 18 83% | 540 | $535 (exactly $535) | Simba | |
 | Lavender Field | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | KamilaFoxGames | |
 | Mary | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Pinster Games | |
 | Stabby Redux | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Soaring Roc Studio |
 | Waste Runner: Critical Waste | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Black Scarab Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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