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Should I ship a Historical Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Historical
Only 12 developers shipped a Historical 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, Halcyon Days at Taoyuan, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.2k, ×3.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $390k, ×624 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.2k (exactly $2,246) |
| Top 25% | $60k (exactly $59,676) |
| Top 5% | $392k (exactly $391,713) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 15 |
| 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 50% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Historical
- 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
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 2,088 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 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
A Tower Full of Cats 2024 · $414k 
Halcyon Days at Taoyuan 2026 · $392k 
汉尘：腐草为萤 2025 · EA · $73k 
ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World 2024 · $60k 
Meow Palace: Forbidden City 2025 · EA · $44k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | A Tower Full of Cats | older | $5.99 | 2,304 99% | 69k | $414k (exactly $414,029) | Devcats |
| | Halcyon Days at Taoyuan | $11.99 | 1,089 89% | 33k | $392k (exactly $391,713) | BotanX | |
| | 汉尘：腐草为萤 | · EA | $7.99 | 305 71% | 9.2k | $73k (exactly $73,108) | 兰廷科技 Lanting Technology Co., Ltd. |
| | ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World | $10.99 | 181 71% | 5.4k | $60k (exactly $59,676) | ZD Yazilim | |
| | Meow Palace: Forbidden City | · EA | $5.99 | 247 90% | 7.4k | $44k (exactly $44,386) | 宫喵家族 |
 | Hidden Cats in Tokyo | $5.99 | 172 92% | 5.2k | $31k (exactly $30,908) | Nukearts Studio | |
 | Hidden Cats in Rome | older | $3.99 | 176 98% | 5.3k | $21k (exactly $21,067) | Nukearts Studio |
 | Hidden Cats in Berlin | older | $3.99 | 163 99% | 4.9k | $20k (exactly $19,511) | Nukearts Studio |
 | My Friend Stalin | older | $0.99 | 452 90% | 14k | $13k (exactly $13,424) | Boom Team |
 | 100 hidden cups | older | $0.99 | 431 42% | 13k | $13k (exactly $12,801) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Igor Shalimov |
 | Hidden Cats in Rio de Janeiro | $3.99 | 73 95% | 2.2k | $8.7k (exactly $8,738) | Nukearts Studio | |
 | Egyptian Punishment | $4.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $2.2k (exactly $2,246) | TheBigO Games | |
 | Dino Quest | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | TPG Tecnologia | |
 | Strange Hunting Grounds | · EA | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | GaniTani |
 | Prince Arthur Monsters of Albion | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Jason Bowen, Oliver Chappell |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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