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Should I ship a Puzzle Hunting game?
Hunting + Puzzle
Only 7 developers shipped a Puzzle Hunting 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, Paranoia Place: Escape Together, 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, ×11 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.3k against a market of $630. 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $657 (exactly $657) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) |
| Top 25% | $43k (exactly $43,451) |
| Top 5% | $373k (exactly $372,734) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 60% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting, Puzzle
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $5.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 4,565 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $660. 6 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×11 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Paranoia Place: Escape Together 2025 · $373k 
Save Room - Organization Puzzle 2022 · $182k 
Noch 2023 · $76k 
FREE DUROV 2024 · $43k 
SO BELOW 2022 · EA · $20k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Paranoia Place: Escape Together | $7.99 | 1,555 87% | 47k | $373k (exactly $372,734) | Bloody Pixel Games | |
| | Save Room - Organization Puzzle | older | $2.99 | 2,033 97% | 61k | $182k (exactly $182,360) | Fractal Projects |
| | Noch | older | $9.99 | 252 78% | 7.6k | $76k (exactly $75,524) | Fair Games Studio, Noostyche |
| | FREE DUROV | $3.99 | 363 90% | 11k | $43k (exactly $43,451) | RASKUMAR TEAM | |
| | SO BELOW | · EA older | $11.99 | 56 73% | 1.7k | $20k (exactly $20,143) | Eonia Studio |
 | Crowhille - Detective Case Files VR | older | $5.99 | 90 88% | 2.7k | $16k (exactly $16,173) | Saturn VR, NipsApp Gaming Software |
 | Catch a Duck | older | $4.99 | 83 80% | 2.5k | $12k (exactly $12,425) | Sleepwalking Potatoes |
 | Full Quiet | older | $9.99 | 31 80% | 930 | $9.3k (exactly $9,291) | Retrotainment Games |
 | I Mother | $14.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | HellYeah! | |
 | Hidden Animals: Photo Hunt - Worldwide Safari | older | $2.99 | 85 91% | 2.6k | $7.6k (exactly $7,625) | Crisp App Studio |
 | Ghost Hunters | $14.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) | 8floor ltd | |
 | Trash Collector Simulator: Survive Edition | $1.99 | 11 27% | 330 | $657 (exactly $657) | Z-Tech Studio | |
 | Hunter's Journey: Nightmare Hunting Collector's Edition | $15.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Phantom Patrol | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gamma Interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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