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Should I ship a Creature Collector Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Creature Collector
Only 12 developers shipped a Creature Collector Survival Horror 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, CleanFall, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×13 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $270 against a market of $630. 26 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $269 (exactly $269) |
| Top 25% | $24k (exactly $24,401) |
| Top 5% | $295k (exactly $295,052) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 26 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 80% 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.
- Survival Horror
- 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
- Survival Horror, Creature Collector
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 830 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 26 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×13 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Atrio: The Dark Wild 2023 · $338k 
CleanFall 2025 · EA · $295k 
Blackberry 2021 · $45k 
Ghostbane 2024 · EA · $42k 
Security: The Horrible Nights 2024 · $24k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Atrio: The Dark Wild | older | $19.99 | 563 78% | 17k | $338k (exactly $337,631) | Isto Inc. |
| | CleanFall | · EA | $19.99 | 492 92% | 15k | $295k (exactly $295,052) | Humanyoyo |
| | Blackberry | older | $9.99 | 150 63% | 4.5k | $45k (exactly $44,955) | AndeoTEAM |
| | Ghostbane | · EA | $8.99 | 155 67% | 4.7k | $42k (exactly $41,804) | Pi Bit |
| | Security: The Horrible Nights | $4.99 | 163 88% | 4.9k | $24k (exactly $24,401) | Professional Villains | |
 | Let Me Out | older | $9.99 | 76 81% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | 4Happy Studio |
 | SO BELOW | · EA older | $11.99 | 56 73% | 1.7k | $20k (exactly $20,143) | Eonia Studio |
 | Sex with a Vampire 🧛♂️❤️ | older | $6.99 | 83 57% | 2.5k | $17k (exactly $17,405) | Metroneck |
 | Matanga 2 | older | $8.99 | 58 75% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $15,643) | MATANGA GAMES |
 | DEEPER CREEPER LUST🐙😱 | older | $5.99 | 72 61% | 2.2k | $13k (exactly $12,938) | Creep Games Inc. |
 | Planet Hoarders | · EA | $7.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $2.4k (exactly $2,397) | Imago Games |
 | Mandragora Seeker in the CREEP ZONE | $6.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | SKOOTA GAMES | |
 | Walking Survival | $2.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Randomkey Inc., mttsus | |
 | Rescue Girl Operation: Code X | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | 2024-NGame | |
 | Necroverse - Undying Shadows | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Arcade Inventors, NipsApp Game Studios | |
 | EGG RAIDERS | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Misoge Inc. |
 | REAP: We Reap What Crawls | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Tbjbu2 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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