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Should I ship a Dungeon Crawler Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Dungeon Crawler
Only 9 developers shipped a Dungeon Crawler Hero Shooter 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, Touhou Brawl, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $1.3k. 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $9.7k (exactly $9,709) |
| Top 5% | $14k (exactly $14,028) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 70% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hero Shooter
- effort 9 / 10 · low · competitive netcode plus hero balance and content cadence
- Dungeon Crawler
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter, Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 890 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + MedievalLong shot
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SuperheroPoor odds
- + Battle RoyalePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Mega City Force 2023 · $130k 
Fossilfuel 2021 · $69k 
Rescue Operation 2021 · $30k 
Bots City 2022 · $15k 
Touhou Brawl 2026 · $14k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mega City Force | older | $14.99 | 289 76% | 8.7k | $130k (exactly $129,963) | Undreamed Games |
| | Fossilfuel | older | $14.99 | 153 70% | 4.6k | $69k (exactly $68,804) | DangerousBob Studio LLC |
| | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | Bots City | older | $49.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $15k (exactly $14,997) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | Touhou Brawl | $11.99 | 39 51% | 1.2k | $14k (exactly $14,028) | FIVE DUCK GAMES | |
 | Rocket Squad: Infinity | $14.99 | 31 22% | 930 | $14k (exactly $13,941) | Jackto Studios | |
 | Damsels in Distress | $8.99 | 36 83% | 1.1k | $9.7k (exactly $9,709) | Anime Mania | |
 | Dice Knight: Mystery of the Moirai | older | $11.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Die of Death Games |
 | THE FANGS HUNTRESS | older | $4.99 | 32 93% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | Drop_Dead_Fred |
 | Boom Blaster | older | $3.99 | 32 65% | 960 | $3.8k (exactly $3,830) | BigBread |
 | Blast Hopper | $5.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) | Heartscape Games | |
 | Dungeons Bomb | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | MARIOZY | |
 | Soda Sabotage | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Darien Williams | |
 | Arkero VR | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Interco Industries LLC | |
 | 协议战线 | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 疼本树奈奈 | |
 | Iceburg | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Skyapa |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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