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Level Editor + Dark Fantasy
Only 11 developers shipped a Dark-Fantasy Level Editor 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, Wizordum, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.9k, ×4.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $520k, ×840 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) |
| Top 25% | $82k (exactly $81,559) |
| Top 5% | $528k (exactly $527,736) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Level Editor
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Dark Fantasy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Level Editor
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 1,276 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Level Editor with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
TaleSpire 2021 · EA · $3.3M 
Wizordum 2025 · $528k 
Soulash 2022 · $231k 
Sipho 2023 · $183k 
Shields of Loyalty 2025 · $84k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | TaleSpire | · EA older | $24.99 | 4,391 89% | 132k | $3.3M (exactly $3,291,933) | Bouncyrock Entertainment |
| | Wizordum | $19.99 | 880 91% | 26k | $528k (exactly $527,736) | Emberheart Games | |
| | Soulash | older | $14.99 | 513 69% | 15k | $231k (exactly $230,696) | Artur Smiarowski |
| | Sipho | older | $17.99 | 339 83% | 10k | $183k (exactly $182,958) | All Parts Connected |
| | Shields of Loyalty | $19.99 | 140 77% | 4.2k | $84k (exactly $83,958) | Mosaic Mask Studio | |
 | Dark Quest 4 | $19.99 | 136 75% | 4.1k | $82k (exactly $81,559) | Brain Seal Ltd | |
 | Into The Dark | older | $19.99 | 46 69% | 1.4k | $28k (exactly $27,586) | Esenthel |
 | Good Knight - One-Button Bullet-Hell | · EA older | $14.99 | 57 94% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | Good Knight Collective |
 | Evertried | older | $19.99 | 38 71% | 1.1k | $23k (exactly $22,789) | Lunic Games / Danilo Domingues |
 | Portalborn | · EA | $9.99 | 72 93% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,578) | TheHand |
 | Hazard Pay | $16.99 | 24 100% | 720 | $12k (exactly $12,233) | Smitner Studio | |
 | Cryptr | $7.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) | instructions unclear | |
 | Nights of the Sleeping God | · EA | $1.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $478 (exactly $478) | Codevanger |
 | Nusantara | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Gordan Glavaš | |
 | Hentai Puzzler | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | OWO_GAMES | |
 | Cinderfall | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | SadNick Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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