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Should I ship a Building Mystery Dungeon?
Building + Mystery Dungeon
Only 11 developers shipped a Building 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, PuPu's Adventure Park, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 31 more are announced, ×3.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180, ×0.3 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 31 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.9 per shipper, while revenue is up 355% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $178 (exactly $178) |
| Top 25% | $17k (exactly $16,721) |
| Top 5% | $58k (exactly $58,461) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 31 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 355% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Building
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Building, Mystery Dungeon
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 68% positive over 298 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 31 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Diggles: The Myth of Fenris 2020 · $186k 
Monsters Domain 2024 · $163k 
ScrewUp 2021 · $78k 
PuPu's Adventure Park 2025 · $58k 
Spirit Animal Survival 2026 · $58k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Diggles: The Myth of Fenris | older | $9.99 | 619 89% | 19k | $186k (exactly $185,514) | Spieleentwicklungskombinat GmbH, Genera… (Spieleentwicklungskombinat GmbH, General Arcade) |
| | Monsters Domain | older | $19.99 | 272 34% | 8.2k | $163k (exactly $163,118) | G-DEVS.com |
| | ScrewUp | older | $9.99 | 259 68% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | 199 Cents STUDIO |
| | PuPu's Adventure Park | $14.99 | 130 64% | 3.9k | $58k (exactly $58,461) | 西梅树工作室 | |
| | Spirit Animal Survival | $19.99 | 96 62% | 2.9k | $58k (exactly $57,571) | TRUEFX GAMES | |
 | Digs TD | older | $19.99 | 76 67% | 2.3k | $46k (exactly $45,577) | Digs Team |
 | Brinefall | older | $7.99 | 90 40% | 2.7k | $22k (exactly $21,573) | Qwerty Studio |
 | The Rings of Powder | older | $12.99 | 45 95% | 1.4k | $18k (exactly $17,536) | Artificial Worlds |
 | The Maze Survivor: The 9th Entrants | $8.99 | 62 82% | 1.9k | $17k (exactly $16,721) | 崔资坦独立游戏Triztan IndieGame | |
 | Dreamstones | older | $11.99 | 45 91% | 1.4k | $16k (exactly $16,186) | Windybeard |
 | Creation of a god: The Eternal Village | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Lost Dreams Games | |
 | What You Didn't See | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Supracorpus, Otakutronic | |
 | No One's Island | · EA | $0.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | Rinthis Arathis |
 | Grid World | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 一尾66 | |
 | AstroMart Adventures | · EA | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Prime Rendering |
 | StellarGrift | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jivapeira |
 | Gatherlands | · EA | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Bugurca Game Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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