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Should I ship a Supernatural Sandbox?
Sandbox + Supernatural
Only 18 developers shipped a Supernatural Sandbox 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, Worshippers of Cthulhu, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 47 more are announced, ×4.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.1k, ×5.0 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $810; 1 in 20 cleared $970k, ×1558 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 47 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $809 (exactly $809) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) |
| Top 25% | $45k (exactly $45,420) |
| Top 5% | $978k (exactly $978,358) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 47 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 90% on the market, supply 55% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Sandbox
- 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
- Sandbox; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Building, Exploration
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Dark, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 3,458 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $810. 4 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 47 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Sandbox with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Amnesia: The Bunker 2023 · $7.8M 
Worshippers of Cthulhu 2025 · $978k 
Shattered Minds 2025 · EA · $587k 
Haunt the House: Terrortown 2014 · $329k 
Ghost Master® 2006 · $258k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Amnesia: The Bunker | older | $24.99 | 10,349 93% | 310k | $7.8M (exactly $7,758,645) | Frictional Games |
| | Worshippers of Cthulhu | $24.99 | 1,305 80% | 39k | $978k (exactly $978,358) | Crazy Goat Games | |
| | Shattered Minds | · EA | $12.99 | 1,507 91% | 45k | $587k (exactly $587,278) | eXtasy Games |
| | Haunt the House: Terrortown | older | $4.99 | 2,199 87% | 66k | $329k (exactly $329,190) | SFB Games |
| | Ghost Master® | older | $4.99 | 1,722 89% | 52k | $258k (exactly $257,783) | Sick Puppies |
 | Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. | older | $9.99 | 860 93% | 26k | $258k (exactly $257,742) | D&A Studios |
 | Creature Lab | older | $19.99 | 343 51% | 10k | $206k (exactly $205,697) | Image Power S.A. |
 | Haunted House Renovator | $19.99 | 197 45% | 5.9k | $118k (exactly $118,141) | Image Power S.A. | |
 | The Herbalist | older | $5.99 | 648 93% | 19k | $116k (exactly $116,446) | Moonworks |
 | ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL | $7.99 | 227 86% | 6.8k | $54k (exactly $54,412) | Cherrypick Games | |
 | Among The Whispers - Provocation | $14.99 | 101 79% | 3.0k | $45k (exactly $45,420) | D&A Studios | |
 | SCP | $9.99 | 24 37% | 720 | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) | Molance Games | |
 | OurLife | $4.99 | 41 78% | 1.2k | $6.1k (exactly $6,138) | WaveyGaming Productions | |
 | Paranormal Practice | · EA | $11.99 | 16 43% | 480 | $5.8k (exactly $5,755) | JUST1GUY |
 | Acatalepsy | · EA | $7.99 | 13 61% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Heavy_Tankr |
 | SHAWA | $3.00 | 27 70% | 810 | $2.4k (exactly $2,430) | ObeZZZanDev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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