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Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + LGBTQ+
Only 18 developers shipped an LGBTQ+ 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, WEBFISHING, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.9k, ×4.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.5k; 1 in 20 cleared $8.5M, ×13672 the market median. Revenue is up 600% on the market; 28 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.9k (exactly $2,938) |
| Top 25% | $80k (exactly $79,720) |
| Top 5% | $8.6M (exactly $8,585,744) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 28 |
| 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 600% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, 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
- LGBTQ+
- 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; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Character Customization, Adventure
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Colorful, Cozy
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 97% positive over 61,944 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 6 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 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
WEBFISHING 2024 · $8.6M 
Bugsnax 2022 · $6.5M 
Promise Mascot Agency 2025 · $1.9M 
Hunt and Snare 2018 · EA · $648k 
JASON, Coming of Age 2025 · $545k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WEBFISHING | $4.99 | 57,353 97% | 1.7M | $8.6M (exactly $8,585,744) | lamedeveloper | |
| | Bugsnax | older | $24.99 | 8,673 97% | 260k | $6.5M (exactly $6,502,148) | Young Horses |
| | Promise Mascot Agency | $24.99 | 2,569 96% | 77k | $1.9M (exactly $1,925,979) | Kaizen Game Works | |
| | Hunt and Snare | · EA older | $29.99 | 720 80% | 22k | $648k (exactly $647,784) | Ruffleneck, Hare, Drathek |
| | JASON, Coming of Age | $14.99 | 1,213 83% | 36k | $545k (exactly $545,486) | Coeur de cochon | |
 | Moonglow Bay | older | $24.99 | 679 66% | 20k | $509k (exactly $509,046) | Bunnyhug |
 | Fish Game | older | $24.99 | 589 93% | 18k | $442k (exactly $441,573) | A Shell in the Pit Games, Creative Ink… (A Shell in the Pit Games, Creative Ink Games) |
 | Monster Crown | older | $9.99 | 677 65% | 20k | $203k (exactly $202,897) | Studio Aurum |
 | Bugaboo Pocket | $19.99 | 300 86% | 9.0k | $180k (exactly $179,910) | Elytra Games | |
 | Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan | older | $19.99 | 147 91% | 4.4k | $88k (exactly $88,156) | ManaVoid Entertainment |
 | Critter Café | $9.99 | 266 72% | 8.0k | $80k (exactly $79,720) | Sumo Digital | |
 | Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime | $16.99 | 143 98% | 4.3k | $73k (exactly $72,887) | Bonte Avond | |
 | The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish | $14.99 | 57 100% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | ZIPIT! Games | |
 | Creature Creation Station | $11.99 | 26 100% | 780 | $9.4k (exactly $9,352) | Xenon Fossil Games | |
 | Soulblaze | · EA | $13.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $2.9k (exactly $2,938) | Cosmic Mocca |
 | Moorage | · EA | $7.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $2.4k (exactly $2,397) | Daedalus Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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