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Should I ship a Robot Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Robots
Only 9 developers shipped a Robot 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, Europa, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×19 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $12k against a market of $630. 19 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $12k (exactly $11,696) |
| Top 25% | $88k (exactly $88,284) |
| Top 5% | $350k (exactly $349,867) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 90% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 22%, 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
- Robots
- 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
- $6.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,892 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 6 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×19 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
Europa 2024 · $350k 
Botworld Odyssey 2024 · $209k 
Fishing The Abyss 2024 · $88k 
Industrial Petting 2020 · EA · $49k 
Turqu-chan in the Hentai Laboratory 2023 · $37k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Europa | $14.99 | 778 85% | 23k | $350k (exactly $349,867) | Helder Pinto, Chozabu (Alex PB), Novadu… (Helder Pinto, Chozabu (Alex PB), Novadust Entertainment) | |
| | Botworld Odyssey | $25.00 | 279 76% | 8.4k | $209k (exactly $209,250) | Featherweight Games | |
| | Fishing The Abyss | $6.99 | 421 95% | 13k | $88k (exactly $88,284) | umaaaaaa studio | |
| | Industrial Petting | · EA older | $19.99 | 82 90% | 2.5k | $49k (exactly $49,175) | Another Yeti |
| | Turqu-chan in the Hentai Laboratory | older | $10.99 | 111 80% | 3.3k | $37k (exactly $36,597) | えくらんど |
 | Hidden Cats in Tokyo | $5.99 | 172 92% | 5.2k | $31k (exactly $30,908) | Nukearts Studio | |
 | WarOfGods 2 | $29.99 | 13 76% | 390 | $12k (exactly $11,696) | Mensa World | |
 | House of Cards: TD | · EA older | $4.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Bright Light Games |
 | Ovivim pra Sua Stream | older | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Virgula Leal, Amon Ribeiro |
 | SEARCH ALL - TOOLS | older | $1.99 | 20 80% | 600 | $1.2k (exactly $1,194) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Puppet Seed | $8.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Moosopolis Games | |
 | ERAIASON | · EA | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Christian Hahm |
 | Evo Born | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Thisisdemo | |
 | Galaxy for Dummies | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Alien Abduction Art |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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