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Should I ship an Investigation Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Investigation
Only 7 developers shipped an Investigation 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.. 16 more are announced, ×4.0 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 $120 against a market of $630. 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $24k (exactly $24,401) |
| Top 5% | $1.6M (exactly $1,567,186) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 16 |
| 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 100% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Investigation
- 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, Investigation
- 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 11,421 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 6 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 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
- + Dating SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Bugsnax 2022 · $6.5M 
RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army 2025 · $1.6M 
沉默的蟋蟀 2023 · $508k 
Security: The Horrible Nights 2024 · $24k 
SO BELOW 2022 · EA · $20k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bugsnax | older | $24.99 | 8,673 97% | 260k | $6.5M (exactly $6,502,148) | Young Horses |
| | RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army | $49.99 | 1,045 93% | 31k | $1.6M (exactly $1,567,186) | ATLUS | |
| | 沉默的蟋蟀 | older | $14.99 | 1,130 88% | 34k | $508k (exactly $508,161) | 蓬莱飞鱼工作室 |
| | Security: The Horrible Nights | $4.99 | 163 88% | 4.9k | $24k (exactly $24,401) | Professional Villains | |
| | SO BELOW | · EA older | $11.99 | 56 73% | 1.7k | $20k (exactly $20,143) | Eonia Studio |
 | Detective Holmes: Hidden Objects | older | $6.99 | 47 82% | 1.4k | $9.9k (exactly $9,856) | Crisp App Studio |
 | Where Cats 猫咪在哪里 | older | $0.99 | 145 94% | 4.4k | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) | 冷笑黑妖 |
 | The Power of Fish | $4.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Strangefish Studios | |
 | 混世萌王喵霸霸 Cute Chaos Demon Nyanbaba | older | $0.99 | 119 97% | 3.6k | $3.5k (exactly $3,534) | 冷笑黑妖 |
 | Rome: The Mystery of the Chronovisor - Hidden Objects | older | $4.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | Crisp App Studio |
 | Find Cats 5 天使猫 | $0.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | Happy Fish | |
 | TooneQuest | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Enders Workshop | |
 | Treasures of the Sunken Ship | · EA | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SchizoID game studio |
 | Orbital Checkpoint | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | VitalGrid Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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