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Should I ship a Hidden Object Flight game?
Flight + Hidden Object
Only 9 developers shipped a Hidden Object Flight 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, Approximately Up, 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 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.3k, ×2.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $600. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 10 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $598 (exactly $598) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) |
| Top 25% | $11k (exactly $10,791) |
| Top 5% | $746k (exactly $745,952) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 250% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Flight
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Hidden Object
- effort 2 / 10 · high · static scenes with click targets
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight, Hidden Object
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 2,769 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 10 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Quick-Time EventsFair
- + CatsFair
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + MiningPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
Approximately Up 2026 · $746k 
The Witch of Fern Island 2024 · $525k 
Disassembly 3D 2017 · $278k 
Disassembly VR 2019 · $141k 
Nothing To Declare 2026 · $70k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Approximately Up | $24.99 | 995 93% | 30k | $746k (exactly $745,952) | Approximately Games | |
| | The Witch of Fern Island | older | $24.99 | 700 69% | 21k | $525k (exactly $524,790) | Enjoy Studio S.A. |
| | Disassembly 3D | older | $29.99 | 309 81% | 9.3k | $278k (exactly $278,007) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | Disassembly VR | older | $29.99 | 157 59% | 4.7k | $141k (exactly $141,253) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | Nothing To Declare | $9.99 | 234 76% | 7.0k | $70k (exactly $70,130) | Rogue Duck Interactive | |
 | Tales of Cosmos | older | $14.99 | 34 79% | 1.0k | $15k (exactly $15,290) | Red Dwarf Games |
 | SEARCH ALL - CATS | older | $2.99 | 135 85% | 4.1k | $12k (exactly $12,110) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Mesoké | $11.99 | 30 90% | 900 | $11k (exactly $10,791) | Mystik'art | |
 | Don't Crash | $4.99 | 68 98% | 2.0k | $10k (exactly $10,180) | Override Studio | |
 | SEARCH ALL - FOXES | older | $2.99 | 107 92% | 3.2k | $9.6k (exactly $9,598) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Flying Peep | $4.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | Near Bird Games | |
 | Cockroach Simulation | $6.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | WIZWIN | |
 | BunnyFly: Season of Summer | $3.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | RocketMooseX | |
 | Seeker 3 | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Sheer Studios | |
 | Keep Deep Sheep | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ProperNet |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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