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Should I ship a Dark-Fantasy Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Dark Fantasy
Of 36 developers who shipped a Dark-Fantasy Creature Collector in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 92 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.9k, ×4.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $240k, ×395 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 92 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.9k (exactly $2,880) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $28,781) |
| Top 5% | $248k (exactly $248,234) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 36 |
| Released games | 64 |
| Announced | 92 |
| 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 50% on the market, supply 100% 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.
- Creature Collector
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Dark Fantasy
- 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; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Roguelike, Roguelite, RPG
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Stylized, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 4,559 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 9 in 10 of the 16 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 92 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 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
Aethermancer 2025 · EA · $2.0M 
Morsels 2025 · $248k 
9th Dawn Remake 2024 · $247k 
Undead Horde 2: Necropolis 2023 · $228k 
Flowers and Deities 2026 · $103k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Aethermancer | · EA | $25.99 | 2,585 91% | 78k | $2.0M (exactly $2,015,524) | moi rai games |
| | Morsels | $14.99 | 552 75% | 17k | $248k (exactly $248,234) | Furcula | |
| | 9th Dawn Remake | $15.99 | 514 86% | 15k | $247k (exactly $246,566) | Valorware | |
| | Undead Horde 2: Necropolis | older | $16.99 | 447 83% | 13k | $228k (exactly $227,836) | 10tons Ltd |
| | Flowers and Deities | $12.99 | 265 90% | 8.0k | $103k (exactly $103,270) | Chill Winter Studio | |
 | Lost in Prayer | · EA | $19.99 | 92 80% | 2.8k | $55k (exactly $55,172) | Nine Dots Studio |
 | Voidsayer | $14.99 | 91 69% | 2.7k | $41k (exactly $40,923) | Pavel Auseitasau | |
 | Wildkeepers Rising | $9.99 | 110 79% | 3.3k | $33k (exactly $32,967) | Lioncode Games | |
 | Gold and Graves | $5.99 | 180 86% | 5.4k | $32k (exactly $32,346) | Yoon | |
 | Letalis | $14.99 | 64 95% | 1.9k | $29k (exactly $28,781) | Monkiato | |
 | BioKept | · EA | $4.99 | 106 66% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,868) | A9019 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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