Hidden Objects: Secrets of the
56
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Hidden Objects: Secrets of the is an Android app from Big Bear Entertainment in the Puzzle category, currently rated 4.0★ across 1,409 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 56: Solid (established niche player). For a Puzzle app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.0
Reviews
1,409 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since Aug 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$220K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $165K – $295K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.7y at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Puzzle complexity ×1.60 | +$35K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$52K |
| ⚙ 11.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$71K |
Total estimate
$220K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $200K · 30× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 📅 11.9y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Puzzle category multiple | -12% |
Final multiple
30× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
155K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.3K
Daily active
2.0K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Puzzle engagement | ~160 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Puzzle D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.32 |
DAU / MAU
32% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷 Category context | Puzzle |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2018-07-09 · 3001 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 8y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 12y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 55/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
7.3
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
10.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.05★ across 1,409 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3001d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3001d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Low install base (1,409 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hidden Objects: Secrets of the
- Developer
- Big Bear Entertainment
- Bundle ID
- net.bigbearentertainment.android_hog_townhouse
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Puzzle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 per item
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Can you solve the mysteries of the secret house?
FEATURES
-- 30 stunning hidden object levels
-- 100s of hidden objects
-- beautifully hand crafted levels and puzzles
-- multiple ways to play, search and find the hidden objects
Finding, searching, seeking, solving is the key to the secrets and mysteries of this hidden object game.
Download Hidden Objects: Secrets of the Mystery House Game today!
The perfect hidden object game for adults. Tons of hidden objects to find and mysteries to solve.… View full description on the official store →
FEATURES
-- 30 stunning hidden object levels
-- 100s of hidden objects
-- beautifully hand crafted levels and puzzles
-- multiple ways to play, search and find the hidden objects
Finding, searching, seeking, solving is the key to the secrets and mysteries of this hidden object game.
Download Hidden Objects: Secrets of the Mystery House Game today!
The perfect hidden object game for adults. Tons of hidden objects to find and mysteries to solve.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.6.4🔄 updated 8y ago📂 Puzzle💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 per item🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hidden Objects: Secrets of the: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,409 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hidden Objects make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hidden Objects earns approximately $5.0K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Hidden Objects profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $220K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Hidden Objects looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.7 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Hidden Objects have?▴
Estimated audience: ~155K lifetime downloads, ~6K monthly active users, and ~2K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Hidden Objects?▴
Browse the full Puzzle category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Hidden Objects built with?▴
Our heuristic places Hidden Objects on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Hidden Objects still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Hidden Objects sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $100K – $200K). Calculated as 30× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Hidden Objects last updated?▴
Hidden Objects last shipped a new version on 2018-07-09 — more than 8 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Hidden Objects?▴
Hidden Objects is published by Big Bear Entertainment on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Hidden Objects's BU Score?▴
Hidden Objects has a BU Score of 56/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.