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Should I ship a Hidden Object Trading Card Game?
Trading Card Game + Hidden Object
Only 5 developers shipped a Hidden Object Trading Card 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, My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) ⭐, 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, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $7.1k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) |
| Top 25% | $16k (exactly $16,147) |
| Top 5% | $382k (exactly $381,838) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 47 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Trading Card Game
- 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
- Trading Card Game, Hidden Object
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 3,828 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 11 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Trading Card Game with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + SandboxFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + CollectathonPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Auto BattlerPoor odds
- + Roguelike DeckbuilderPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
Comparable games
My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) ⭐ 2025 · $382k 
12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull 2015 · $156k 
Dig for TCG Cards With Your Friends 2026 · $16k 
SEARCH ALL - ADULT 2021 · $15k 
SEARCH ALL - FOXES 2021 · $9.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) ⭐ | $7.95 | 1,601 65% | 48k | $382k (exactly $381,838) | Polnoch | |
| | 12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull | older | $2.99 | 1,736 90% | 52k | $156k (exactly $155,719) | Jetdogs Studios, Zoom Out Games |
| | Dig for TCG Cards With Your Friends | $6.99 | 77 44% | 2.3k | $16k (exactly $16,147) | 3 Rare Devs | |
| | SEARCH ALL - ADULT | older | $9.99 | 49 67% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,685) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | SEARCH ALL - FOXES | older | $2.99 | 107 92% | 3.2k | $9.6k (exactly $9,598) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Animals Memory: Cats | older | $3.99 | 78 84% | 2.3k | $9.3k (exactly $9,337) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Schoolgirl Card Pull Simulator | $6.99 | 34 61% | 1.0k | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) | Violet Soft | |
 | Animals Memory: Dinosaurs | older | $3.99 | 50 80% | 1.5k | $6.0k (exactly $5,985) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Animals Memory: Birds | older | $3.99 | 50 80% | 1.5k | $6.0k (exactly $5,985) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Animals Memory: Dogs | older | $3.99 | 46 76% | 1.4k | $5.5k (exactly $5,506) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Eternal Rifts | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Montece Gaming | |
 | Side Hustle City | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Kian Productions |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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