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Should I ship a Steampunk Hidden Object?
Hidden Object + Steampunk
Only 9 developers shipped a Steampunk 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, Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×5.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.6k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) |
| Top 25% | $5.0k (exactly $5,032) |
| Top 5% | $631k (exactly $631,042) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 11 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 70% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Steampunk
- 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
- 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 95,558 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hidden Object with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + SimulationFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Word GameFair
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Comparable games
The Room 4: Old Sins 2021 · $4.8M 
The Room 2014 · $4.6M 
The Room Two 2016 · $3.2M 
Deponia 2012 · $3.1M 
Quern - Undying Thoughts 2016 · $2.9M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Room 4: Old Sins | older | $8.99 | 17,806 98% | 534k | $4.8M (exactly $4,802,278) | Fireproof Games |
| | The Room | older | $4.99 | 30,421 97% | 913k | $4.6M (exactly $4,554,024) | Fireproof Games |
| | The Room Two | older | $4.99 | 21,056 97% | 632k | $3.2M (exactly $3,152,083) | Fireproof Games |
| | Deponia | older | $9.99 | 10,455 87% | 314k | $3.1M (exactly $3,133,364) | Daedalic Entertainment |
| | Quern - Undying Thoughts | older | $24.99 | 3,812 90% | 114k | $2.9M (exactly $2,857,856) | Zadbox Entertainment |
 | Syberia | older | $12.99 | 3,919 89% | 118k | $1.5M (exactly $1,527,234) | Microids |
 | Syberia 3 | older | $14.99 | 3,231 51% | 97k | $1.5M (exactly $1,452,981) | Microids |
 | Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy | $39.99 | 526 90% | 16k | $631k (exactly $631,042) | Microids Studio Paris | |
 | The Tiny Bang Story | older | $4.99 | 3,809 88% | 114k | $570k (exactly $570,207) | Colibri Games |
 | Slice of Sea | older | $24.99 | 523 90% | 16k | $392k (exactly $392,093) | Mateusz Skutnik |
 | Clockwork Rabbit | $10.99 | 23 100% | 690 | $7.6k (exactly $7,583) | OnionMilk | |
 | Legacy - Reawakening | $5.99 | 28 82% | 840 | $5.0k (exactly $5,032) | No Signal Productions | |
 | FIND KITTENS 4: Aetherpunk | $0.99 | 104 93% | 3.1k | $3.1k (exactly $3,089) | Very Very LITTLE Studio | |
 | Lullabies Made of Static | $4.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Texhno Studios | |
 | Cardio | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Mat'ndCo | |
 | Radley Ravencroft's Spy Web Mystery | · EA | $4.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | sliphtrex |
 | About a Boy | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Return 0 Game Studio | |
 | Clockwork Palace: Mysteries of the Mughal Mechanicum | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Studio Saffron Pvt Limited |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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