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Should I ship a Dungeon Crawler Colony Sim?
Colony Sim + Dungeon Crawler
Only 13 developers shipped a Dungeon Crawler Colony Sim 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, Dungeon Settlers, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $830k, ×1333 the market median. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 25 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $450 (exactly $450) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $170k (exactly $170,315) |
| Top 5% | $837k (exactly $837,415) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 25% on the market, supply 235% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Colony Sim
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Dungeon Crawler
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Colony Sim, Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 3,269 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 25 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Colony Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 4XPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Action RPGPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + MarsPoor odds
Comparable games
Cult of the Lamb 2022 · $84M 
War for the Overworld 2015 · $5.8M 
Dungeon Settlers 2026 · EA · $837k 
Anomaly President 2026 · EA · $619k 
Goblin Stone 2024 · $551k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cult of the Lamb | older | $24.99 | 112,096 95% | 3.4M | $84M (exactly $84,038,371) | Massive Monster |
| | War for the Overworld | older | $29.99 | 6,495 85% | 195k | $5.8M (exactly $5,843,552) | Brightrock Games |
| | Dungeon Settlers | · EA | $24.99 | 1,117 79% | 34k | $837k (exactly $837,415) | CanOpener |
| | Anomaly President | · EA | $14.99 | 1,376 91% | 41k | $619k (exactly $618,787) | Phew Phew Games |
| | Goblin Stone | older | $24.99 | 735 52% | 22k | $551k (exactly $551,030) | Orc Chop Games |
 | Regions of Ruin: Runegate | $19.99 | 389 84% | 12k | $233k (exactly $233,283) | Gameclaw Studio | |
 | Guardians of the Sanctree | $19.99 | 284 72% | 8.5k | $170k (exactly $170,315) | HuCang Studio | |
 | Shelter Manager | older | $14.99 | 251 62% | 7.5k | $113k (exactly $112,875) | Hamsters Gaming |
 | Mega Mall Story | older | $8.99 | 302 94% | 9.1k | $81k (exactly $81,449) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | Dungeons & Kingdoms | · EA | $19.99 | 80 40% | 2.4k | $48k (exactly $47,976) | Uncle Grouch Gaming |
 | Heroes For Hire - Guild Micromanagement Simulator | · EA | $7.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $2.2k (exactly $2,157) | Untouch |
 | Wayward Valley | · EA | $14.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | PixelPulse Studio |
 | Restoration: Chronicles of Survival | $2.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | ALGaming | |
 | SCP Foundation: Universe Horror | · EA | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Great Ave Games |
 | Wanderers' Outpost | · EA | $14.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Wind Arthouse |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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