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Should I ship a Military Hidden Object?
Hidden Object + Military
Only 9 developers shipped a Military 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, Briefcase , made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $300 against a market of $630. 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 25% | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 5% | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 570% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hidden Object
- effort 2 / 10 · high · static scenes with click targets
- Military
- 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
- Hidden Object
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 1,014 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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- + Word GameFair
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Comparable games
Winter 2022 · EA · $306k 
Kingdom of Wreck Business 2023 · $38k 
Geometric Sniper 2020 · $25k 
The Last City 2022 · $8.7k 
Geometric Sniper - Blood in Paris 2021 · $5.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Winter | · EA older | $29.99 | 340 73% | 10k | $306k (exactly $305,898) | Frostfall Realms Studios |
| | Kingdom of Wreck Business | older | $9.99 | 127 31% | 3.8k | $38k (exactly $38,062) | WarZoneLab |
| | Geometric Sniper | older | $2.99 | 282 84% | 8.5k | $25k (exactly $25,295) | YAW Studios |
| | The Last City | older | $4.99 | 58 62% | 1.7k | $8.7k (exactly $8,683) | Tremmi Publishing |
| | Geometric Sniper - Blood in Paris | older | $2.99 | 65 80% | 2.0k | $5.8k (exactly $5,830) | YAW Studios |
 | Briefcase | $3.99 | 39 100% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | Yuri Antunes | |
 | SEARCH ALL - RUNES | older | $2.99 | 42 92% | 1.3k | $3.8k (exactly $3,767) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Elite Commander | older | $1.99 | 36 47% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,149) | indiegames3000 |
 | Oil Invasion | older | $4.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Ruskija game experience, Valkeala Softw… (Ruskija game experience, Valkeala Software) |
 | Dirty Wars: September 11 | older | $4.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Uglycat Studios, Sudaka Games |
 | The Island of Thugs | $0.99 | 19 78% | 570 | $564 (exactly $564) | Big Green Platypus | |
 | RoundZ | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | GG Interactive | |
 | Hollowborn: The Military Incident | $2.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Blackguard | |
 | Prophecrawl | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Michael Richard Lannon | |
 | Streamlands: Defense | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | NGD Studios | |
 | Cozy Radiation Cleaner | $0.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | SilverSet Studios LTD. | |
 | Battleships Combat: Evolved | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Mantegral Studio | |
 | Amber of Jinn | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Stixor |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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