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Should I ship a Zombie Creature Collector?
Creature Collector + Zombies
Only 14 developers shipped a Zombie 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, Security: The Horrible Nights, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.5k, ×2.4 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $240. Revenue is up 10% on the market; 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,485) |
| Top 25% | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) |
| Top 5% | $24k (exactly $24,401) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 10% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Zombies
- 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
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 385 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 9 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Creature Collector with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Bullet HellFair
- + CapitalismFair
- + LootFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + SpaceFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + MusicPoor odds
Comparable games
Undead Horde 2: Necropolis 2023 · $228k 
Creature Lab 2023 · $206k 
Zombie Party 丧尸派对 2024 · $25k 
Security: The Horrible Nights 2024 · $24k 
Hidden Cats in Spooky Village 2025 · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Undead Horde 2: Necropolis | older | $16.99 | 447 83% | 13k | $228k (exactly $227,836) | 10tons Ltd |
| | Creature Lab | older | $19.99 | 343 51% | 10k | $206k (exactly $205,697) | Image Power S.A. |
| | Zombie Party 丧尸派对 | older | $5.99 | 140 77% | 4.2k | $25k (exactly $25,158) | Joychasing Games |
| | Security: The Horrible Nights | $4.99 | 163 88% | 4.9k | $24k (exactly $24,401) | Professional Villains | |
| | Hidden Cats in Spooky Village | $4.99 | 76 100% | 2.3k | $11k (exactly $11,377) | Nukearts Studio | |
 | Gloomy Village | older | $4.99 | 46 58% | 1.4k | $6.9k (exactly $6,886) | Sancta Maledicta |
 | Cyber Girl - Zombie Hentai | older | $3.99 | 56 58% | 1.7k | $6.7k (exactly $6,703) | Team Soul |
 | Necromancer For A Week | $7.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $6.5k (exactly $6,472) | QuietPenguinGaming | |
 | Platform 6 ONLINE | 6番線オンライン協力異変探し | $9.99 | 18 83% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | MFC STUDIO, SHINISE GAMES, KOSEI YASUDA | |
 | Phantom Asylum VR | · EA | $9.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | SRVR |
 | 100 Zombie Cats | $1.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $2.4k (exactly $2,388) | 100 Cozy Games, Cats | |
 | Onyx | · EA | $9.90 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,485) | Dark Matter |
 | Cats vs Zombies | $1.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $896 (exactly $896) | Sons of Welder, FM Simple Games Studio | |
 | Find Kitties: Zombie Hunter | $1.20 | 20 95% | 600 | $720 (exactly $720) | Sons of Welder, FM Simple Games Studio | |
 | Cats vs Zombies III | $0.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $386 (exactly $386) | Sons of Welder, FM Simple Games Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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