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Should I ship a Hidden Object Colony Sim?
Colony Sim + Hidden Object
Only 8 developers shipped a Hidden Object Colony Sim 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, Cloudrift Islands, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×3.3 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 $630 against a market of $630. 13 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $629 (exactly $629) |
| Top 25% | $4.4k (exactly $4,404) |
| Top 5% | $5.1k (exactly $5,147) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 60% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Colony Sim
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Hidden Object
- effort 2 / 10 · high · static scenes with click targets
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Colony Sim, Hidden Object
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 503 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Colony Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 4XPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Action RPGPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + MarsPoor odds
Comparable games
Winter 2022 · EA · $306k 
Search of Galaxy 2022 · EA · $7.5k 
Cloudrift Islands 2026 · $5.1k 
Mini Crafty 2021 · $4.8k 
Primage 2025 · EA · $4.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Winter | · EA older | $29.99 | 340 73% | 10k | $306k (exactly $305,898) | Frostfall Realms Studios |
| | Search of Galaxy | · EA older | $9.99 | 25 52% | 750 | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) | DRAGONnoid |
| | Cloudrift Islands | $3.99 | 43 76% | 1.3k | $5.1k (exactly $5,147) | Inspite, W-I-W | |
| | Mini Crafty | older | $4.99 | 32 65% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | V. Chuvilin |
| | Primage | · EA | $6.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $4.4k (exactly $4,404) | Fadzior |
 | South America Gold Rush | · EA | $9.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Argo Games |
 | Bunker | older | $0.99 | 25 56% | 750 | $742 (exactly $742) | Fearjoy Games |
 | Cockroach Simulation | $6.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | WIZWIN | |
 | SCP Foundation: Universe Horror | · EA | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Great Ave Games |
 | Blox 3D World | older | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Appy Monkeys Software Pvt. Ltd. |
 | It was beautiful | $1.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Tudor Croitoru | |
 | My Happy Village in the Kingdom | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ima shouganai | |
 | Crownrats | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | KineticFox, KettuLabs |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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