Should I ship a Loot Cooking game?
Loot + Cooking
Only 10 developers shipped a Loot Cooking 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, Storage Looter, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×4.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.3k, ×2.1 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.1k; 1 in 20 cleared $4.7k, ×7.6 the market median. Revenue is up 150% on the market; 25 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 5% | $4.8k (exactly $4,794) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 up 150% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Loot, Cooking
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 78% positive over 70 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.1k. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Loot with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Artificial IntelligenceStrong odds
- + Local Co-OpStrong odds
- + SteampunkStrong odds
- + CapitalismFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + JRPGFair
- + EconomyFair
- + IdlerFair
- + CatsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Creature CollectorFair
- + CollectathonFair
Comparable games
Kitaria Fables 2021 · $751k 
Denizen 2024 · EA · $531k 
Hold Your Own 2017 · EA · $239k 
Badiya: Desert Survival 2016 · EA · $170k 
Grindstone 2022 · $146k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Kitaria Fables | older | $19.99 | 1,253 73% | 38k | $751k (exactly $751,424) | Twin Hearts, Secret Level Studios |
| | Denizen | · EA older | $19.99 | 886 72% | 27k | $531k (exactly $531,334) | Departure Interactive |
| | Hold Your Own | · EA older | $14.99 | 532 65% | 16k | $239k (exactly $239,240) | DistrictWare inc. |
| | Badiya: Desert Survival | · EA older | $19.99 | 284 50% | 8.5k | $170k (exactly $170,315) | Semaphore |
| | Grindstone | older | $19.99 | 244 93% | 7.3k | $146k (exactly $146,327) | Capybara Games |
 | Territory | · EA older | $14.99 | 57 64% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | Threat Vector |
 | Fishton: A Town to Remember | older | $14.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $10k (exactly $10,343) | Queenfish Games |
 | Surviving West | older | $9.99 | 29 58% | 870 | $8.7k (exactly $8,691) | Nemo Studios |
 | Storage Looter | $7.99 | 20 100% | 600 | $4.8k (exactly $4,794) | Tekila | |
 | Surviving Skeleton Island | $9.99 | 14 64% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Bert Games | |
 | HANGRY™ | · EA | $14.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Game Pill |
 | RuneClick | $6.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | Vosk Games | |
 | 10-Man Idle | $4.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | JLGames | |
 | The Hunter's Path | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | JustWallWireHead Games | |
 | スローライフサバイバー／SlowLife Survivor | $6.99 | 5 0% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | MIZUBLUE GAMES | |
 | No One's Island | · EA | $0.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | Rinthis Arathis |
 | Otherwise | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | MonstrCorp | |
 | Plucked Up | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | RavenCrestStudios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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