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Should I ship a Supernatural Hunting game?
Hunting + Supernatural
Only 12 developers shipped a Supernatural 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, Folklore Hunter, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 34 more are announced, ×4.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $840, ×1.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $650k, ×1046 the market median. Revenue is up 1325% on the market; 34 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $836 (exactly $836) |
| Top 25% | $5.8k (exactly $5,846) |
| Top 5% | $657k (exactly $656,815) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 34 |
| 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 up 1325% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hunting
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Supernatural
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 82% positive over 2,840 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 34 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
HellSign 2021 · $1.3M 
Witch Hunt 2018 · $687k 
Folklore Hunter 2026 · $657k 
Rake 2015 · $568k 
Paranoia Place: Escape Together 2025 · $373k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | HellSign | older | $19.99 | 2,147 67% | 64k | $1.3M (exactly $1,287,556) | Ballistic Interactive |
| | Witch Hunt | older | $9.99 | 2,291 88% | 69k | $687k (exactly $686,613) | Gua |
| | Folklore Hunter | $17.99 | 1,217 75% | 37k | $657k (exactly $656,815) | Liquid Donkey Games | |
| | Rake | older | $4.99 | 3,795 71% | 114k | $568k (exactly $568,112) | Konsordo |
| | Paranoia Place: Escape Together | $7.99 | 1,555 87% | 47k | $373k (exactly $372,734) | Bloody Pixel Games | |
 | Skinwalker Hunt | older | $12.99 | 790 91% | 24k | $308k (exactly $307,863) | Gua |
 | Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice | older | $29.99 | 235 64% | 7.1k | $211k (exactly $211,430) | Fast Travel Games |
 | A Day Out | older | $9.99 | 607 76% | 18k | $182k (exactly $181,918) | KevTheDev, gamesbychris |
 | Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 | older | $19.99 | 243 53% | 7.3k | $146k (exactly $145,727) | 巫女さん作法 |
 | Shadows Peak | older | $9.99 | 297 70% | 8.9k | $89k (exactly $89,011) | Gua |
 | Goo Deer | $14.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $5.8k (exactly $5,846) | VML Studios | |
 | BACKROOMS: DON'T LOOK AWAY | $2.99 | 25 84% | 750 | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) | DMNT Interactive | |
 | Dolls: The Hunt | · EA | $8.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.9k (exactly $1,888) | Fake Fox |
 | Undead Hunter Part I | $1.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $836 (exactly $836) | Fireplay Studio | |
 | Hunter's Journey: Nightmare Hunting Collector's Edition | $15.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Leshy Prelude | $0.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $238 (exactly $238) | Hassan Khan, Shahmir Khan | |
 | Shadow Stalker | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | LilGnomeGames |
 | Phantom Patrol | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gamma Interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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