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Should I ship a Dinosaur Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Dinosaurs
Only 10 developers shipped a Dinosaur 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, Clawed, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 34 more are announced, ×4.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $14k, ×23 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.8k; 1 in 20 cleared $430k, ×696 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 34 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
|---|---|
| Median | $14k (exactly $14,390) |
| Top 25% | $284k (exactly $283,816) |
| Top 5% | $437k (exactly $437,181) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 34 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Dinosaurs
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Survival Horror
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 3,451 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.8k. 34 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different setting or mood, 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
Clawed 2026 · $437k 
Deathground 2025 · EA · $394k 
Prehistoric Hunt 2020 · EA · $366k 
Dino Crisis 2026 · $284k 
Dino Crisis 2 2026 · $212k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Clawed | $19.99 | 729 52% | 22k | $437k (exactly $437,181) | Flatrock Games | |
| | 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 |
| | Dino Crisis | $9.99 | 947 80% | 28k | $284k (exactly $283,816) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd., GOG.com | |
| | Dino Crisis 2 | $9.99 | 709 87% | 21k | $212k (exactly $212,487) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd., GOG.com | |
 | Dino Trauma | · EA older | $12.99 | 378 91% | 11k | $147k (exactly $147,307) | Phobia Interactive |
 | Fossilfuel 2 | older | $19.99 | 142 80% | 4.3k | $85k (exactly $85,157) | DangerousBob Studio LLC |
 | Oakwood | older | $4.99 | 519 86% | 16k | $78k (exactly $77,694) | Breaking Dimensions, Polygon Dust Enter… (Breaking Dimensions, Polygon Dust Entertainment Ltd.) |
 | Repterra | $19.99 | 122 90% | 3.7k | $73k (exactly $73,163) | Chute Apps | |
 | Fossilfuel | older | $14.99 | 153 70% | 4.6k | $69k (exactly $68,804) | DangerousBob Studio LLC |
 | Creatures Of War | $14.99 | 32 75% | 960 | $14k (exactly $14,390) | Chaos Entertainment | |
 | PLAYTOWN: Chapter 3 | $8.99 | 26 88% | 780 | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) | Cyanide TIme Games | |
 | Extinct Forest | · EA | $14.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Systemfehler Entertainment TS |
 | Dinosaur Zoo VR : Dinosaur Hunting | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | dani360_studios | |
 | Dead by Instinct | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Disco Entertainment Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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