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Should I ship a Dating Sim Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Dating Sim
Only 14 developers shipped a Dating Sim 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, JASON, Coming of Age, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 43 more are announced, ×7.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $23k, ×37 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $7.0k; 1 in 20 cleared $540k, ×869 the market median. Revenue is up 25% on the market; 43 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $6.9k (exactly $6,924) |
|---|---|
| Median | $23k (exactly $23,377) |
| Top 25% | $102k (exactly $101,720) |
| Top 5% | $545k (exactly $545,486) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 43 |
| 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 up 25% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Dating Sim
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Creature Collector, Dating Sim
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 4,658 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $7.0k. 6 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 43 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.2 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
- + MusicPoor odds
Comparable games
Moonstone Island 2023 · $2.4M 
Rune Factory 5 2022 · $2.3M 
Rune Factory 4 Special 2021 · $1.9M 
Rune Factory 3 Special 2023 · $881k 
JASON, Coming of Age 2025 · $545k | 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 |
| | Rune Factory 5 | older | $39.99 | 1,940 76% | 58k | $2.3M (exactly $2,327,418) | Marvelous Inc. |
| | Rune Factory 4 Special | older | $29.99 | 2,070 88% | 62k | $1.9M (exactly $1,862,379) | Marvelous Inc. |
| | Rune Factory 3 Special | older | $39.99 | 734 94% | 22k | $881k (exactly $880,580) | Marvelous Inc. |
| | JASON, Coming of Age | $14.99 | 1,213 83% | 36k | $545k (exactly $545,486) | Coeur de cochon | |
 | Island Notes | $12.99 | 884 82% | 27k | $344k (exactly $344,495) | KangBaoGame | |
 | My Lovely Wife | older | $14.99 | 685 74% | 21k | $308k (exactly $308,044) | GameChanger Studio, Toge Productions |
 | Fantasy Aquarium | $6.99 | 833 79% | 25k | $175k (exactly $174,680) | MOON SCAPE | |
 | Athenian Rhapsody | older | $14.99 | 320 91% | 9.6k | $144k (exactly $143,904) | Nico Papalia |
 | Chicken Hill | $2.99 | 1,134 99% | 34k | $102k (exactly $101,720) | 梗立游戏 | |
 | Nimbit Frontier | · EA | $13.99 | 113 97% | 3.4k | $47k (exactly $47,426) | Megasploot |
 | Desktop Kitten Girl | $3.99 | 277 86% | 8.3k | $33k (exactly $33,157) | KDream | |
 | Basketboy's Adventure | $9.99 | 78 78% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,377) | greenteagame1 | |
 | Stuff It! | $9.99 | 54 87% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $16,184) | BONNISOFT | |
 | Hentai Dates | $9.99 | 51 66% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $15,285) | Fantasy Games | |
 | My Life In A Monster Girl Paradise | $10.99 | 21 71% | 630 | $6.9k (exactly $6,924) | Xoullion |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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