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Should I ship a Detective Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Detective
Only 10 developers shipped a Detective 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, RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $6.3k against a market of $630. 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.3k (exactly $6,268) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,431) |
| Top 5% | $1.6M (exactly $1,567,186) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 50 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 30% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, 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
- Detective
- 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
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 1,654 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.4k. 5 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 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 
RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army 2025 · $1.6M 
Floor Plan 2 VR 2021 · $67k 
Sea Chronicles 2025 · $46k 
Let Me Out 2024 · $23k | 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. |
| | RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army | $49.99 | 1,045 93% | 31k | $1.6M (exactly $1,567,186) | ATLUS | |
| | Floor Plan 2 VR | older | $29.99 | 75 90% | 2.3k | $67k (exactly $67,478) | Turbo Button |
| | Sea Chronicles | $9.99 | 154 90% | 4.6k | $46k (exactly $46,154) | Madi Abdykarimov | |
| | Let Me Out | older | $9.99 | 76 81% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | 4Happy Studio |
 | SO BELOW | · EA older | $11.99 | 56 73% | 1.7k | $20k (exactly $20,143) | Eonia Studio |
 | Project Of Cooling The Earth | older | $4.99 | 120 72% | 3.6k | $18k (exactly $17,964) | 人鱼工作室 |
 | LONGEYED PROJ | older | $4.99 | 86 60% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $12,874) | wadishTheCreator |
 | Mental Hospital - Child of Evil | older | $5.99 | 62 64% | 1.9k | $11k (exactly $11,141) | Igor Migun |
 | Fantastic Findings Hidden Seasons | $11.99 | 29 89% | 870 | $10k (exactly $10,431) | Shapeshift Entertainment ApS | |
 | Mirrored Soul | $9.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $9.3k (exactly $9,291) | Mammothplant, Hex4F, Greasy McBeef | |
 | 100 Egypt Cats | $1.99 | 122 95% | 3.7k | $7.3k (exactly $7,283) | 100 Cozy Games, Cats | |
 | 100 Crime Cats | $1.99 | 105 95% | 3.2k | $6.3k (exactly $6,268) | 100 Cozy Games, Cats | |
 | 100 Forest Cats | $1.99 | 95 81% | 2.9k | $5.7k (exactly $5,672) | 100 Cozy Games, Cats | |
 | The Power of Fish | $4.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Strangefish Studios | |
 | Phantom Asylum VR | · EA | $9.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | SRVR |
 | Cats Visiting Christmas Town | $1.99 | 40 90% | 1.2k | $2.4k (exactly $2,388) | AGE Zero, Purrfect |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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