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Should I ship a Logic Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Logic
Only 19 developers shipped a Logic 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, Space Accident VR, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $990, ×1.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $110k, ×187 the market median. Revenue is up 260% on the market; 22 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $987 (exactly $987) |
| Top 25% | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) |
| Top 5% | $118k (exactly $117,741) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 68 |
| Announced | 22 |
| 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 up 260% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Logic
- effort 2 / 10 · high · deductive rules and grids
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Creature Collector, Logic; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Puzzle, Action, Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Colorful, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 734 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 8 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 22 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 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
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows 2023 · $401k 
Space Accident VR 2025 · $118k 
Fossil Corner 2021 · $99k 
Dofamine VR 2025 · $52k 
100 hidden eternals 2020 · $19k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Paquerette Down the Bunburrows | older | $11.99 | 1,115 96% | 33k | $401k (exactly $401,066) | Bunstack |
| | Space Accident VR | $16.99 | 231 82% | 6.9k | $118k (exactly $117,741) | VR-WRG | |
| | Fossil Corner | older | $9.99 | 330 98% | 9.9k | $99k (exactly $98,901) | Brady Soglin |
| | Dofamine VR | $9.99 | 173 82% | 5.2k | $52k (exactly $51,848) | VR-WRG | |
| | 100 hidden eternals | older | $0.99 | 624 92% | 19k | $19k (exactly $18,533) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh |
 | 100 hidden dogs | older | $0.99 | 552 93% | 17k | $16k (exactly $16,394) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Аlexandr Telminov |
 | SEARCH ALL - ADULT | older | $9.99 | 49 67% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,685) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | LONGEYED PROJ | older | $4.99 | 86 60% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $12,874) | wadishTheCreator |
 | 100 hidden hares | older | $0.99 | 379 94% | 11k | $11k (exactly $11,256) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Аlexandr Telminov |
 | SEARCH ALL - FOXES | older | $2.99 | 107 92% | 3.2k | $9.6k (exactly $9,598) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Erogoddess: Mirage | $5.99 | 33 96% | 990 | $5.9k (exactly $5,930) | Moobly | |
 | TurnBreak | · EA | $7.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $4.8k (exactly $4,794) | Dapper Dog Digital |
 | MEMOLOGY: ITALIAN BRAINROT | $0.99 | 148 91% | 4.4k | $4.4k (exactly $4,396) | hannibalnotdead, Gamesforfarm | |
 | The Power of Fish | $4.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Strangefish Studios | |
 | Eyes That Hypnotise | $2.99 | 31 100% | 930 | $2.8k (exactly $2,781) | Possum Riot | |
 | 1000 hidden snails | $1.99 | 46 56% | 1.4k | $2.7k (exactly $2,746) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh | |
 | SEARCH ALL - BONES | $2.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $1.9k (exactly $1,884) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich | |
 | Umbra Flora | $9.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | ActuallyAMacaw, Gigantic G |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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