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Should I ship a Cat Dungeon Crawler?
Dungeon Crawler + Cats
Only 19 developers shipped a Cat Dungeon Crawler 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, Garden of Witches, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.6k, ×7.6 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $630; 1 in 20 cleared $1.1M, ×2372 the market median. Revenue is up 125% on the market; 30 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $629 (exactly $629) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $14,840) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,126,867) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 52 |
| Announced | 30 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 125% on the market, supply 115% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Dungeon Crawler
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Cats
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Dungeon Crawler; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, RPG, Roguelike
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $18.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Cute, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $18.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 2,313 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dungeon Crawler with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Time ManagementFair
- + GamblingFair
- + DiceFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + ZombiesFair
- + Word GameFair
- + ThrillerFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + DwarvesPoor odds
Comparable games
Crypt Custodian 2024 · $1.8M 
Garden of Witches 2026 · $1.1M 
Portal Dungeon 2023 · $447k 
Cladun X3 2025 · $100k 
Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens 2024 · $95k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Crypt Custodian | older | $19.99 | 2,927 96% | 88k | $1.8M (exactly $1,755,322) | Kyle Thompson |
| | Garden of Witches | $18.99 | 1,978 92% | 59k | $1.1M (exactly $1,126,867) | Team Tapas | |
| | Portal Dungeon | older | $14.99 | 995 88% | 30k | $447k (exactly $447,452) | Dusk Dog Studio |
| | Cladun X3 | $39.99 | 83 90% | 2.5k | $100k (exactly $99,575) | Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. | |
| | Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens | older | $9.99 | 318 80% | 9.5k | $95k (exactly $95,305) | Chris McFarland |
 | Backrooms Cats and Lava | older | $29.99 | 105 79% | 3.2k | $94k (exactly $94,468) | Galactic Geckon |
 | Wildcat Gun Machine | older | $14.99 | 81 66% | 2.4k | $36k (exactly $36,426) | Chunkybox Games |
 | Time Snatcher Handy | $9.99 | 88 96% | 2.6k | $26k (exactly $26,374) | PulleyBun, ClockworkCats | |
 | TeamTower | · EA older | $19.99 | 37 64% | 1.1k | $22k (exactly $22,189) | pink rabbit |
 | LIGHT: Black Cat & Amnesia Girl | older | $10.99 | 66 83% | 2.0k | $22k (exactly $21,760) | Daylight Studio |
 | Isekat: Crushed by a Computer, My Beloved Kitten is Transported to a Fantasy World where its Typing Skills Save the Kingdom! | $9.99 | 50 92% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,985) | InSpite | |
 | Roguematch : The Extraplanar Invasion | $14.99 | 33 84% | 990 | $15k (exactly $14,840) | Starstruck Games | |
 | Roulette Dungeon | $8.99 | 26 84% | 780 | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) | Hooded Traveler Games | |
 | Mighty Meow | $9.99 | 19 100% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | JamieDev | |
 | RAZE | $9.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | RAZE CLUB | |
 | Meowmunitions | $12.99 | 10 50% | 300 | $3.9k (exactly $3,897) | Pete Karesisto | |
 | DarkRay | $9.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | EuroGamesStudio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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