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Should I ship a Robot Hidden Object?
Hidden Object + Robots
Only 17 developers shipped a Robot 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, LIFE EFFECT Survival, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $9.4k (exactly $9,440) |
| Top 5% | $219k (exactly $219,454) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 76 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 down 80% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- Robots
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Hidden Object; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Crafting, Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $39.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Colorful, Realistic, Relaxing
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 869 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 9 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hidden Object with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Dating SimFair
- + CatsFair
- + DogsFair
- + RomanceFair
- + FlightFair
- + City BuilderFair
- + SimulationFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Word GameFair
- + Point & ClickFair
Comparable games
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day 2016 · $503k 
LIFE EFFECT Survival 2026 · EA · $219k 
Rumu 2017 · $159k 
Tech Blast 2025 · $108k 
Escape from the Room of the Serving Doll 2024 · $95k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day | older | $9.99 | 1,680 76% | 50k | $503k (exactly $503,496) | ComonGames |
| | LIFE EFFECT Survival | · EA | $14.99 | 488 85% | 15k | $219k (exactly $219,454) | LIFE EFFECT |
| | Rumu | older | $9.99 | 530 89% | 16k | $159k (exactly $158,841) | Robot House |
| | Tech Blast | $39.99 | 90 92% | 2.7k | $108k (exactly $107,973) | Galactic Geckon | |
| | Escape from the Room of the Serving Doll | older | $6.99 | 451 84% | 14k | $95k (exactly $94,575) | 桃山プロダクション |
 | Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack | older | $19.99 | 133 95% | 4.0k | $80k (exactly $79,760) | Warm Kitten |
 | Regular Factory: Escape Room | older | $9.99 | 210 91% | 6.3k | $63k (exactly $62,937) | mc2games |
 | One Way: The Elevator | older | $3.99 | 441 94% | 13k | $53k (exactly $52,788) | Cotton Game |
 | Broken Lens | older | $6.99 | 248 88% | 7.4k | $52k (exactly $52,006) | Team RUN |
 | ReRoad | older | $14.99 | 104 74% | 3.1k | $47k (exactly $46,769) | Rabbithole Games |
 | Hidden Cats in Tokyo | $5.99 | 172 92% | 5.2k | $31k (exactly $30,908) | Nukearts Studio | |
 | Russian Village Simulator on Mars | $15.99 | 58 77% | 1.7k | $28k (exactly $27,823) | VD Games, PropilGames | |
 | MALPRAXIS™ | $8.99 | 35 48% | 1.1k | $9.4k (exactly $9,440) | Sunscorched Studios | |
 | Artificial Nexus | $9.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Too Many Teeth Studios | |
 | FOCUS | $3.99 | 7 42% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | kuma-hacker | |
 | Where's my Hentai Deck? | $1.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $537 (exactly $537) | Kopon Games | |
 | Bot & Tic | · EA | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Twinties |
 | Marty's Funducational Tour! | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Zellous Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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