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Should I ship a Fishing Dungeon Crawler?
Dungeon Crawler + Fishing
Only 12 developers shipped a Fishing 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, FlyKnight, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 29 more are announced, ×7.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $17k against a market of $480. 29 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $327 (exactly $327) |
|---|---|
| Median | $17k (exactly $16,566) |
| Top 25% | $157k (exactly $157,439) |
| Top 5% | $1.9M (exactly $1,874,630) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 29 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 50% fewer 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.
- Dungeon Crawler
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Fishing
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Dungeon Crawler, Fishing
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 93% positive over 11,934 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $330. 6 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 29 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dungeon Crawler with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Battle Chasers: Nightwar 2017 · $5.0M 
FlyKnight 2025 · $1.9M 
Cryptmaster 2024 · $1.3M 
FATE 2013 · $981k 
FATE: Reawakened 2025 · $568k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battle Chasers: Nightwar | older | $29.99 | 5,573 87% | 167k | $5.0M (exactly $5,014,028) | Airship Syndicate |
| | FlyKnight | $5.99 | 10,432 96% | 313k | $1.9M (exactly $1,874,630) | Wabbaboy | |
| | Cryptmaster | older | $24.99 | 1,671 94% | 50k | $1.3M (exactly $1,252,749) | Paul Hart, Lee Williams, Akupara Games |
| | FATE | older | $7.99 | 4,092 95% | 123k | $981k (exactly $980,852) | WildTangent |
| | FATE: Reawakened | $24.99 | 758 73% | 23k | $568k (exactly $568,273) | gamigo US Inc., Tableflip Entertainment… (gamigo US Inc., Tableflip Entertainment AB) | |
 | 9th Dawn III | older | $15.99 | 501 87% | 15k | $240k (exactly $240,330) | Valorware |
 | Starlight Revolver | · EA | $12.99 | 404 54% | 12k | $157k (exactly $157,439) | Pahdo Labs |
 | FATE: The Cursed King | older | $7.99 | 484 93% | 15k | $116k (exactly $116,015) | WildTangent |
 | Hungry Horrors | · EA | $14.99 | 209 98% | 6.3k | $94k (exactly $93,987) | Clumsy Bear Studio |
 | Hot Spring Hero | older | $18.99 | 148 83% | 4.4k | $84k (exactly $84,316) | EXAMGAMES |
 | Shujinkou | $59.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $47k (exactly $46,792) | Rice Games Inc | |
 | Dreaming Isles | $6.99 | 79 51% | 2.4k | $17k (exactly $16,566) | YawningDad | |
 | Surviving Skeleton Island | $9.99 | 14 64% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Bert Games | |
 | VELTHRA | $12.40 | 1 0% | 30 | $372 (exactly $372) | mttsus | |
 | A Fishy RPG | $0.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $327 (exactly $327) | LGV | |
 | Demon's Regalia: Colosseum | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | regalfang |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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