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Should I ship a Loot Board Game?
Loot + Board Game
Only 19 developers shipped a Loot Board 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, Sandwalkers, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $290k, ×468 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 19 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,195) |
| Top 5% | $294k (exactly $293,853) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 64 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 95% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Loot
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Board Game
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Loot, Board Game; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Party-Based RPG, RPG
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 1,499 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Loot with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Artificial IntelligenceStrong odds
- + Local Co-OpStrong odds
- + SteampunkStrong odds
- + CapitalismFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + JRPGFair
- + EconomyFair
- + IdlerFair
- + CatsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Creature CollectorFair
- + CollectathonFair
Comparable games
Stolen Realm 2024 · $2.1M 
Tales & Tactics 2024 · $937k 
Sandwalkers 2025 · $294k 
Talisman: Digital 5th Edition 2024 · $204k 
Dead Grid 2026 · $196k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stolen Realm | older | $19.99 | 3,470 84% | 104k | $2.1M (exactly $2,080,959) | Burst2Flame Games |
| | Tales & Tactics | older | $17.99 | 1,737 80% | 52k | $937k (exactly $937,459) | Table 9 Studio |
| | Sandwalkers | $19.99 | 490 73% | 15k | $294k (exactly $293,853) | Goblinz Studio | |
| | Talisman: Digital 5th Edition | $29.99 | 227 70% | 6.8k | $204k (exactly $204,232) | Nomad Games | |
| | Dead Grid | $12.99 | 504 93% | 15k | $196k (exactly $196,409) | Atom Void | |
 | Yaengard | older | $24.99 | 121 76% | 3.6k | $91k (exactly $90,714) | Planeshift Interactive |
 | Underboard | $14.99 | 181 74% | 5.4k | $81k (exactly $81,396) | Headless | |
 | Rogue Dungeon | older | $14.99 | 49 77% | 1.5k | $22k (exactly $22,035) | Cerberus Gate Games |
 | Beasties - Monster Trainer Puzzle RPG | older | $8.99 | 45 46% | 1.4k | $12k (exactly $12,136) | rokaplay |
 | Light Fingers | $19.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | Numizmatic | |
 | Hero Quest - God of Chaos | · EA | $19.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Future Intellect LLC |
 | Tetra Dungeon | $4.99 | 25 88% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | 套鹿工作室 | |
 | Petrified Pawns | $5.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) | Bepansrad Studio | |
 | Tinker-World: Arrival at Kedhreon | $6.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $2.1k (exactly $2,097) | From The Cave, TibiSoft | |
 | CELESTIAL: FIRE & FORGE | $4.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | ERA Soft Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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