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Should I ship a Cooking Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Cooking
Only 19 developers shipped a Cooking Creature Collector 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, Creature Kitchen, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 58 more are announced, ×4.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $12k, ×19 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $2.1M, ×3453 the market median. Revenue is down 60% on the market; 58 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $597 (exactly $597) |
|---|---|
| Median | $12k (exactly $11,731) |
| Top 25% | $164k (exactly $163,578) |
| Top 5% | $2.2M (exactly $2,168,326) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 58 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 down 60% on the market, supply 115% more developers than 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.
- Creature Collector
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Cooking
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Creature Collector, Cooking; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Simulation, Fishing
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.90 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cute, Pixel Graphics, Relaxing
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.90 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 14,940 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 6 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 58 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Creature Collector with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + CapitalismFair
- + LootFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + SpaceFair
- + ZombiesFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Moonstone Island 2023 · $2.4M 
Creature Kitchen 2026 · $2.2M 
Ooblets 2023 · $1.2M 
Bloomtown: A Different Story 2024 · $1.1M 
Moonglow Bay 2021 · $509k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Moonstone Island | older | $19.99 | 4,063 84% | 122k | $2.4M (exactly $2,436,581) | Studio Supersoft |
| | Creature Kitchen | $7.99 | 9,046 99% | 271k | $2.2M (exactly $2,168,326) | The Rat Zone | |
| | Ooblets | older | $29.99 | 1,388 91% | 42k | $1.2M (exactly $1,248,784) | Glumberland |
| | Bloomtown: A Different Story | $24.99 | 1,428 85% | 43k | $1.1M (exactly $1,070,572) | Lazy Bear Games, Different Sense Games | |
| | Moonglow Bay | older | $24.99 | 679 66% | 20k | $509k (exactly $509,046) | Bunnyhug |
 | Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi | $5.99 | 2,525 96% | 76k | $454k (exactly $453,742) | Kygua Tech | |
 | Halcyon Days at Taoyuan | $11.99 | 1,089 89% | 33k | $392k (exactly $391,713) | BotanX | |
 | Dragon Song Tavern: Cozy & Adventurous | $19.90 | 274 71% | 8.2k | $164k (exactly $163,578) | Etherous Games Limited | |
 | Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge | older | $19.99 | 230 86% | 6.9k | $138k (exactly $137,931) | Humble Reeds |
 | Box Bakery | $12.99 | 321 86% | 9.6k | $125k (exactly $125,094) | mangobox games | |
 | GladiEATers | · EA | $14.99 | 69 92% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,029) | MilkBubblesGames |
 | Galactic Getaway: Build a Home for Pets | · EA | $14.99 | 62 61% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $27,881) | Akrew |
 | Skystead Ranch | $24.99 | 28 71% | 840 | $21k (exactly $20,992) | ToastieLabs | |
 | Songs of Yummy | $3.99 | 98 74% | 2.9k | $12k (exactly $11,731) | DreamStep, FUTU Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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