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Should I ship a Precision Platformer Dungeon Crawler?
Dungeon Crawler + Precision Platformer
Only 9 developers shipped a Precision Platformer 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, PixelBoss: Shattered Depths, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180, ×0.4 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper, while revenue is up 80% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 5% | $10k (exactly $10,405) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 53 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 up 80% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Dungeon Crawler, Precision Platformer
- Price point
- $2.99 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 $17.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 1,052 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dungeon Crawler with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Dead Dungeon 2018 · $32k 
DOOMER'S ADVENTURE 2021 · $19k 
JustAxe 2024 · $17k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Golfie | older | $17.99 | 275 66% | 8.3k | $148k (exactly $148,418) | Triheart Studio |
| | Backrooms Cats and Lava | older | $29.99 | 105 79% | 3.2k | $94k (exactly $94,468) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Dead Dungeon | older | $4.99 | 217 90% | 6.5k | $32k (exactly $32,485) | Roenko Games |
| | DOOMER'S ADVENTURE | older | $9.99 | 64 85% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $19,181) | deadworld games |
| | JustAxe | older | $10.99 | 53 73% | 1.6k | $17k (exactly $17,474) | Supergalactiс Gamedev |
 | NecroWorm | older | $4.99 | 86 70% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $12,874) | postpunkpl, atabiszewski |
 | Pixel Pirate | older | $24.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $10k (exactly $10,496) | Stas Paty9mkin |
 | PixelBoss: Shattered Depths | · EA | $2.99 | 116 75% | 3.5k | $10k (exactly $10,405) | Quacky Games |
 | Hunter Girls | older | $4.99 | 50 78% | 1.5k | $7.5k (exactly $7,485) | · |
 | SAOMI | older | $2.99 | 72 94% | 2.2k | $6.5k (exactly $6,458) | Naoka Studio |
 | Escape from Spikes | $1.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $537 (exactly $537) | Biversen, Ytsejam Game | |
 | KAPIBAROV | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | STUDIYATEHNOLOGIJ-RV | |
 | NEKRO3 | · EA | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | CHVDR |
 | Ultimate super boy | $2.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | WaterGames | |
 | The Lost Identity | $2.49 | 2 100% | 60 | $149 (exactly $149) | Bozi Game Studio | |
 | Eco Ronin | · EA | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Slightly Esoteric Studios |
 | Pyra | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lumen Depth | |
 | Retro Otrop | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Iuri Guião |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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