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Should I ship a Dinosaur Stealth game?
Stealth + Dinosaurs
Only 10 developers shipped a Dinosaur Stealth game 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, FEROCIOUS, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×4.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $17k, ×27 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $550k, ×886 the market median. Revenue is up 10135% on the market; 23 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $17k (exactly $17,014) |
| Top 25% | $179k (exactly $179,262) |
| Top 5% | $556k (exactly $556,277) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 10135% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Stealth
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 2,503 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + WarPoor odds
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Comparable games
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition 2020 · $144M 
FEROCIOUS 2025 · $556k 
Deathground 2025 · EA · $394k 
Prehistoric Hunt 2020 · EA · $366k 
Serial Cleaners 2022 · $268k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition | older | $49.99 | 95,804 87% | 2.9M | $144M (exactly $143,677,259) | Guerrilla |
| | FEROCIOUS | $24.99 | 742 63% | 22k | $556k (exactly $556,277) | OMYOG | |
| | Deathground | · EA | $14.99 | 877 61% | 26k | $394k (exactly $394,387) | Jaw Drop Games |
| | Prehistoric Hunt | · EA older | $17.99 | 678 84% | 20k | $366k (exactly $365,917) | Antiproto Studios |
| | Serial Cleaners | older | $24.99 | 357 76% | 11k | $268k (exactly $267,643) | Draw Distance |
 | Unknown Tapes | $12.99 | 460 80% | 14k | $179k (exactly $179,262) | Traviteam Games | |
 | Dinosis Survival | older | $5.99 | 291 55% | 8.7k | $52k (exactly $52,293) | Corpix Games |
 | Rip Current | $8.99 | 114 85% | 3.4k | $31k (exactly $30,746) | Breaking Dimensions, Polygon Dust Enter… (Breaking Dimensions, Polygon Dust Entertainment) | |
 | Reptiles: In Hunt | older | $9.99 | 97 57% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $29,071) | Corpix Games |
 | BLOOD MALL: RETAPED | $1.99 | 285 94% | 8.6k | $17k (exactly $17,014) | Ollie Hall | |
 | Primeval Genesis | · EA | $14.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $6.7k (exactly $6,746) | After Hours Digital |
 | Nocturnal Relics | $9.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Mighty Magpie AB | |
 | Primal Fear | $5.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | Connor White | |
 | Primal Glade | $2.49 | 3 33% | 90 | $224 (exactly $224) | Jonathan Moye | |
 | Primal Frost | $2.49 | 2 50% | 60 | $149 (exactly $149) | Jonathan Moye |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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