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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Cyberpunk
Only 10 developers shipped a Cyberpunk 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, Beyond Galaxyland, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×3.0 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $300; 1 in 20 cleared $140k, ×225 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 22 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,887) |
| Top 25% | $57k (exactly $56,662) |
| Top 5% | $141k (exactly $141,206) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 22 |
| 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 down 100% on the market, supply 50% 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
- Cyberpunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Creature Collector
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 81% positive over 1,144 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 22 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Creature Collector with a different setting or mood, 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
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition 2019 · $16M 
Soul Hackers 2 2022 · $4.1M 
Beyond Galaxyland 2024 · $141k 
Berserk B.I.T.S 2025 · $140k 
Tomomon 2024 · $57k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition | older | $49.99 | 10,810 89% | 324k | $16M (exactly $16,211,757) | h.a.n.d., Inc., Media.Vision Inc. |
| | Soul Hackers 2 | older | $59.99 | 2,300 65% | 69k | $4.1M (exactly $4,139,310) | ATLUS |
| | Beyond Galaxyland | $14.99 | 314 85% | 9.4k | $141k (exactly $141,206) | Sam Enright | |
| | Berserk B.I.T.S | $6.99 | 667 81% | 20k | $140k (exactly $139,870) | BerserkBoy Games | |
| | Tomomon | $14.99 | 126 70% | 3.8k | $57k (exactly $56,662) | ManicBuild Studio | |
 | Malice & Greed | · EA older | $14.99 | 56 73% | 1.7k | $25k (exactly $25,183) | Xendra |
 | Cyber West: Hidden Object Games - Western | older | $8.99 | 35 74% | 1.1k | $9.4k (exactly $9,440) | Crisp App Studio |
 | Cyber Girl - Zombie Hentai | older | $3.99 | 56 58% | 1.7k | $6.7k (exactly $6,703) | Team Soul |
 | Palladise Island | older | $0.99 | 143 88% | 4.3k | $4.2k (exactly $4,247) | TOTATO |
 | Venator Universe | · EA | $4.99 | 22 63% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Fullset Gaming |
 | Sacred World | $6.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $1.9k (exactly $1,887) | 超巨大战喵 | |
 | Prepare The Past | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Soul Engine Studio LLC | |
 | GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | GLITCHED MATRIX | |
 | Influence | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | RISE'S | |
 | Teamfight Royale | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Festucs Interactive | |
 | Scropia | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Luvenoid |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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