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Should I ship a Level Editor Action Roguelike?
Level Editor + Action Roguelike
Only 14 developers shipped a Level Editor Action Roguelike 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, Unrailed 2: Back on Track, 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, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 10 developers shipped in the last year and 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,075,862) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 575% on the market, supply 100% 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.
- Level Editor
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Action Roguelike
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Level Editor, Action Roguelike
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 87% positive over 1,970 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
30XX 2023 · $1.5M 
Unrailed 2: Back on Track 2026 · $1.1M 
Neon Chrome 2016 · $245k 
Sipho 2023 · $183k 
CounterAttack: Uprising 2019 · $122k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 30XX | older | $19.99 | 2,514 90% | 75k | $1.5M (exactly $1,507,646) | Batterystaple Games |
| | Unrailed 2: Back on Track | $19.99 | 1,794 88% | 54k | $1.1M (exactly $1,075,862) | Indoor Astronaut | |
| | Neon Chrome | older | $14.99 | 545 93% | 16k | $245k (exactly $245,086) | 10tons Ltd |
| | Sipho | older | $17.99 | 339 83% | 10k | $183k (exactly $182,958) | All Parts Connected |
| | CounterAttack: Uprising | older | $14.99 | 272 90% | 8.2k | $122k (exactly $122,318) | Relative Games |
 | Brut@l | older | $14.99 | 134 79% | 4.0k | $60k (exactly $60,260) | Stormcloud Games Limited |
 | Game of Rebirth | $12.99 | 81 69% | 2.4k | $32k (exactly $31,566) | ZodiacStudio | |
 | Just Get Through | older | $4.99 | 158 84% | 4.7k | $24k (exactly $23,653) | Retrific |
 | The Shadowed Rune | · EA | $9.95 | 41 100% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $12,238) | Javifugitivo |
 | Masked Forces 2: Mystic Demons | older | $4.99 | 67 73% | 2.0k | $10k (exactly $10,030) | FreezeNova |
 | Feline Survivor | $5.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) | 一拳工作室 | |
 | Randotura | $1.99 | 23 100% | 690 | $1.4k (exactly $1,373) | blinyadebil | |
 | Domain of Hallucination | · EA | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Wid… (Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Widmer, Jonas Wiesli, rnaisa) |
 | Exiles of the Dark Dungeon | $2.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | 布莱恩和鱼缸工作室 | |
 | Red Guest Biography | $1.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | 程进 | |
 | Doomed Stars | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mischief & Mayhem Studios | |
 | Tank Busters | · EA | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | tankotableat |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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