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Should I ship a Fishing Hidden Object?
Fishing + Hidden Object
Only 12 developers shipped a Fishing Hidden Object 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, Forest Doesn’t Care, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×12 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 0 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.9k against a market of $480. 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $896 (exactly $896) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) |
| Top 25% | $9.9k (exactly $9,880) |
| Top 5% | $105k (exactly $105,345) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 4 / 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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 22%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Fishing
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Hidden Object
- effort 2 / 10 · high · static scenes with click targets
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Fishing, Hidden Object
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 68% positive over 441 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 9 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 0 developers who shipped in the last year, ×12 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fishing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FarmingFair
- + AutomationFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
- + AgriculturePoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Russian Village Simulator 2023 · $800k 
Forest Doesn’t Care 2025 · $105k 
Russian Village Simulator on Mars 2025 · $28k 
Arctic Anxiety 2020 · EA · $26k 
Huge Jaws 2022 · $17k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Russian Village Simulator | older | $29.99 | 889 84% | 27k | $800k (exactly $799,833) | VD Games, PropilGames |
| | Forest Doesn’t Care | $13.99 | 251 65% | 7.5k | $105k (exactly $105,345) | MOROZ GAMES | |
| | Russian Village Simulator on Mars | $15.99 | 58 77% | 1.7k | $28k (exactly $27,823) | VD Games, PropilGames | |
| | Arctic Anxiety | · EA older | $2.99 | 285 55% | 8.6k | $26k (exactly $25,565) | Arctic Studio |
| | Huge Jaws | older | $24.99 | 23 65% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | Piece Of Voxel |
 | 100 hidden turtles | older | $0.99 | 462 95% | 14k | $14k (exactly $13,721) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh |
 | 100 hidden mushrooms | older | $0.99 | 414 92% | 12k | $12k (exactly $12,296) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Catherine Svyata… (Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Catherine Svyataya) |
 | Monmusu Paradise ~Visitors~ | $4.99 | 66 74% | 2.0k | $9.9k (exactly $9,880) | Siluman Soft | |
 | Animals Memory: Underwater Kingdom | older | $3.99 | 36 77% | 1.1k | $4.3k (exactly $4,309) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Fishing on the Fly | $9.99 | 10 50% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Numicus Studios, MacClark.com | |
 | South America Gold Rush | · EA | $9.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Argo Games |
 | All That Glitters | $4.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | lestudiodetrop | |
 | Undefined Survivors -アンディファインド サバイバーズ- | · EA | $29.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Runpath Inc. |
 | Another Game About Clicking | $3.99 | 12 33% | 360 | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) | myownyose | |
 | Sunny Reef | $1.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $896 (exactly $896) | GiBar | |
 | DarkShine | · EA | $3.00 | 5 100% | 150 | $450 (exactly $450) | DScorp |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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