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Should I ship a Dragon Trading Card Game?
Trading Card Game + Dragons
Only 6 developers shipped a paid Dragon Trading Card 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, Ariokan™ - create your cards, break the Meta, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 5 in 10 of the games here are free to play and sit outside these figures. 22 more are announced, ×11 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $270 against a market of $630. 22 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $270 (exactly $270) |
| Top 25% | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 5% | $16k (exactly $16,195) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 52%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Trading Card Game
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Dragons
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Trading Card Game
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 923 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 22 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×11 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Trading Card Game with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + SandboxFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + CollectathonPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Auto BattlerPoor odds
- + Roguelike DeckbuilderPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
Comparable games
Ruff Ghanor 2024 · $261k 
Erannorth Chronicles 2021 · $256k 
Ariokan™ - create your cards, break the Meta 2026 · $16k 
Dice & Dungeons 2022 · $3.1k 
Dragon Evo 2022 · $2.1k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ruff Ghanor | older | $19.99 | 435 85% | 13k | $261k (exactly $260,869) | DX Gameworks |
| | Erannorth Chronicles | older | $20.99 | 407 85% | 12k | $256k (exactly $256,288) | Spyridon Thalassinos |
| | Ariokan™ - create your cards, break the Meta | $29.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $16k (exactly $16,195) | Fatum Games SL | |
| | Dice & Dungeons | older | $2.99 | 35 68% | 1.1k | $3.1k (exactly $3,140) | Beni Games |
| | Dragon Evo | older | $9.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | Bromantic Games |
 | Game of Dragons | older | $9.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | 14Dimension Enterprise |
 | Slide Furry Futanari | older | $1.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $776 (exactly $776) | Black Hole |
 | Dreamians: Card Battle | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | White Vortex Games | |
 | All-Front Assault | $8.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | Star Heart Workshop | |
 | Seblen: Battle! | older | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Legible Solutions |
 | Kingdoms of Age | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Rude Gnome Games | |
 | Paper Mages | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gently Giant LLC | |
 | Warmongers | · EA | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Good Game Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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