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Should I ship a Conspiracy Dungeon Crawler?
Dungeon Crawler + Conspiracy
Only 9 developers shipped a Conspiracy 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, Colony 37, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120 in the last 2 years and $270 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 4 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $269 (exactly $269) |
| Top 5% | $20k (exactly $20,093) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 10% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Conspiracy
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 694 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dungeon Crawler with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MMORPGPoor odds
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Comparable games
The Backrooms 2022 · EA · $36k 
StarCrawlers Chimera 2024 · $26k 
Colony 37 2025 · EA · $20k 
The Backrooms Multiplayer 2022 · EA · $15k 
告死天使的审判 Death Angel Trial 2020 · $8.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Backrooms | · EA older | $9.99 | 119 62% | 3.6k | $36k (exactly $35,664) | Ionized Games |
| | StarCrawlers Chimera | older | $19.99 | 43 69% | 1.3k | $26k (exactly $25,787) | Juggernaut Games |
| | Colony 37 | · EA | $2.99 | 224 95% | 6.7k | $20k (exactly $20,093) | Valen |
| | The Backrooms Multiplayer | · EA older | $8.99 | 56 39% | 1.7k | $15k (exactly $15,103) | Untold Backrooms Stories |
| | 告死天使的审判 Death Angel Trial | older | $3.99 | 67 79% | 2.0k | $8.0k (exactly $8,020) | 我妻寒十 |
 | Frozen Shelter | older | $3.56 | 33 66% | 990 | $3.5k (exactly $3,524) | Aktamia, Admia |
 | Another World - Thought Taboo | older | $4.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | Ashwind |
 | Project Liminal Redux | older | $0.99 | 91 59% | 2.7k | $2.7k (exactly $2,703) | AquaHeaven Studios |
 | Monkey Doomsday | older | $1.99 | 37 81% | 1.1k | $2.2k (exactly $2,209) | Supreme Gauntlet Games |
 | Sexy Heroine! Part 3 | older | $7.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $959 (exactly $959) | Sexy Dev! |
 | Fracas | $5.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Rookbird Games | |
 | Cliché Horror 2000s: The Witch’s Lair | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | High Room Game studio | |
 | The Almagest Anomalies | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Lee Powell | |
 | 701病房 | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Shuo Xu | |
 | Silency: Cube 666 | $0.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Ayyya | |
 | Tales of the Cryptozoo | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | PROYECTAEX |
 | Dreamrealm's Tower of Despair | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | CaffeineBoosterGames | |
 | Liminal Protocol | · EA | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Rabbit House Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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