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Should I ship a Creature Collector Hunting game?
Hunting + Creature Collector
Only 8 developers shipped a Creature Collector Hunting game 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, Multiverse Loot Hunter, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 34 more are announced, ×6.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $920k, ×1481 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 34 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $21,917) |
| Top 5% | $930k (exactly $929,824) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 34 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 95% on the market, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hunting
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Creature Collector
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting, Creature Collector
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 69% positive over 28,879 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 34 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
WILD HEARTS™ 2023 · $22M 
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin 2021 · $14M 
Monster Hunter Stories 2024 · $1.5M 
Multiverse Loot Hunter 2025 · $930k 
Hunt and Snare 2018 · EA · $648k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WILD HEARTS™ | older | $69.99 | 10,626 48% | 319k | $22M (exactly $22,311,412) | KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. |
| | Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin | older | $39.99 | 11,845 82% | 355k | $14M (exactly $14,210,446) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | Monster Hunter Stories | older | $29.99 | 1,615 90% | 48k | $1.5M (exactly $1,453,016) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | Multiverse Loot Hunter | $11.99 | 2,585 80% | 78k | $930k (exactly $929,824) | 游戏养家工作室 | |
| | Hunt and Snare | · EA older | $29.99 | 720 80% | 22k | $648k (exactly $647,784) | Ruffleneck, Hare, Drathek |
 | Penko Park | older | $13.99 | 602 98% | 18k | $253k (exactly $252,659) | Ghostbutter |
 | Adore | older | $19.99 | 396 87% | 12k | $237k (exactly $237,481) | Cadabra Games |
 | Athos | · EA older | $24.99 | 95 58% | 2.9k | $71k (exactly $71,222) | Neojac Entertainment Inc. |
 | Sons Of The Dream Forest | · EA older | $4.99 | 318 9% | 9.5k | $48k (exactly $47,605) | SimulatorLife |
 | The Corpsmen | older | $19.99 | 77 57% | 2.3k | $46k (exactly $46,177) | Multicell Games |
 | Twilight Tails | $16.99 | 43 51% | 1.3k | $22k (exactly $21,917) | Prokopchuk Pavlo | |
 | Cryptid Keeper | $4.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) | Double Jackdaw | |
 | Fish Box | $4.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | DoXMo | |
 | The Fishercat | $4.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | MACARON STUDIO | |
 | Blendkins | $5.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | TRINAC Studio | |
 | Beast and Cleaver | $0.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Grimes Productions | |
 | Chickeat Catch | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Yamei Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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