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Should I ship a Dragon Resource Management game?
Resource Management + Dragons
Only 12 developers shipped a Dragon Resource Management 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, Mind Over Magic, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 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 $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $420; 1 in 20 cleared $3.2M, ×5150 the market median. Revenue is down 40% on the market; 35 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $419 (exactly $419) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
| Top 25% | $28k (exactly $28,331) |
| Top 5% | $3.2M (exactly $3,234,206) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 35 |
| 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 down 40% on the market, supply 200% 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.
- Resource Management
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Dragons
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Resource Management
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 4,623 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $420. 35 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Resource Management with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Mind Over Magic 2025 · $3.2M 
Circle Empires Rivals 2020 · $749k 
Drago Noka 2023 · $84k 
The Dragoness: Command of the Flame 2022 · $80k 
Swords And Magic: Path Of Conquest 2026 · EA · $38k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mind Over Magic | $24.99 | 4,314 86% | 129k | $3.2M (exactly $3,234,206) | Sparkypants | |
| | Circle Empires Rivals | older | $15.99 | 1,561 89% | 47k | $749k (exactly $748,812) | Luminous |
| | Drago Noka | older | $19.99 | 140 78% | 4.2k | $84k (exactly $83,958) | GeSEI unkan (ゲ製うんかん) |
| | The Dragoness: Command of the Flame | older | $19.99 | 134 67% | 4.0k | $80k (exactly $80,360) | Crazy Goat Games |
| | Swords And Magic: Path Of Conquest | · EA | $9.99 | 128 77% | 3.8k | $38k (exactly $38,362) | ShadowMoon Wolf Game Tech Ltd |
 | My Infamous Dungeon | $14.99 | 63 76% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,331) | BoxFox Studios | |
 | Dragon Forge | older | $9.99 | 72 38% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,578) | Legend Studio |
 | My Fantastic Ranch: Unicorns & Dragons | older | $29.99 | 17 47% | 510 | $15k (exactly $15,295) | Piece of Cake Fabulous |
 | Mystika 3 : Awakening of the dragons | older | $5.99 | 72 93% | 2.2k | $13k (exactly $12,938) | Unikgame |
 | AFKandia - Epoch of Idle | $5.99 | 66 45% | 2.0k | $12k (exactly $11,860) | Yang++ Game Studio | |
 | Classic Tower Defense 2 | $2.99 | 24 95% | 720 | $2.2k (exactly $2,153) | Blacksmith Forge | |
 | I Am Busy Digging A Hole | $4.99 | 12 58% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Welding Byte | |
 | Isekai Idle | $2.99 | 10 40% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | Koarkgames | |
 | Dwarven Rails | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Kogekisaru | |
 | Bob Saves the Princess | · EA | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | Milton_Filto |
 | Monster And Continent | $2.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | lupengzhan |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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