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Should I ship an AI Mystery Dungeon?
Mystery Dungeon + Artificial Intelligence
Only 10 developers shipped an AI Mystery Dungeon 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, Meowgic, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $60 in the last 2 years and $180 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $60 (exactly $60) |
| Top 25% | $180 (exactly $180) |
| Top 5% | $111k (exactly $110,741) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 795% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Artificial Intelligence
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Mystery Dungeon
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 78% positive over 549 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Mystery Dungeon with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + JRPGStrong odds
- + TacticalStrong odds
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + RomanceFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + PhysicsFair
Comparable games
Cosmonious High 2022 · $138k 
Meowgic 2026 · $111k 
Somewhere in the Shadow 2021 · $52k 
The Lustful Inn of Female Adventurers 2025 · $24k 
Frame - Portals on Steroids 2023 · $18k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cosmonious High | older | $19.99 | 230 94% | 6.9k | $138k (exactly $137,931) | Owlchemy Labs |
| | Meowgic | $7.99 | 462 79% | 14k | $111k (exactly $110,741) | Lazy Turtle Games | |
| | Somewhere in the Shadow | older | $2.99 | 579 80% | 17k | $52k (exactly $51,936) | Aydy, Nikolay Kulesh |
| | The Lustful Inn of Female Adventurers | $9.99 | 81 76% | 2.4k | $24k (exactly $24,276) | StudioVR | |
| | Frame - Portals on Steroids | older | $16.99 | 35 91% | 1.1k | $18k (exactly $17,840) | MechanicsDriven |
 | Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory | older | $9.99 | 50 94% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,985) | Symbolic Software |
 | B-Horror: Subway | older | $4.99 | 15 73% | 450 | $2.2k (exactly $2,246) | MozMesh |
 | Forsaken | older | $14.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Atharv Raj Soni, Naman Choudhary, Aryan… (Atharv Raj Soni, Naman Choudhary, Aryans Tiwari) |
 | ViruZ | older | $2.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) | BigBread |
 | The Last Fighter | older | $2.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Laush Studio |
 | King Of The Dark Circuit | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | SavicNode | |
 | NULL | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Merelab | |
 | Li O's Online World | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Lil knee Games | |
 | Trust Me | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | SunnaLAB | |
 | The Eyes | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | The Unknown | |
 | Escape The Labyrinth | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Matteo Innusa | |
 | Escape from the Archives | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Brad Wright | |
 | Conundrum | $54.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chen Min |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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