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Should I ship a Dungeon Crawler Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Dungeon Crawler
Of 30 developers who shipped a Dungeon Crawler Real Time Tactics in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 41 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.3k, ×5.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $1.1M, ×1758 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 41 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $358 (exactly $358) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $11,688) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,104,226) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 30 |
| Released games | 79 |
| Announced | 41 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 90% on the market, supply 15% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Real Time Tactics
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Dungeon Crawler
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics, Dungeon Crawler; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, RPG, Strategy RPG
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 72% positive over 6,000 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 17 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 41 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DragonsStrong odds
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + HackingFair
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
Age of Reforging: The Freelands 2025 · $2.1M 
Tower of Time 2018 · $1.7M 
JIANGHU CHRONICLES 2025 · $1.1M 
Hadean Tactics 2023 · $1.0M 
Dark Envoy 2023 · $704k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Age of Reforging: The Freelands | $29.99 | 2,291 71% | 69k | $2.1M (exactly $2,061,213) | PersonaeGame Studio | |
| | Tower of Time | older | $24.99 | 2,322 82% | 70k | $1.7M (exactly $1,740,803) | Event Horizon |
| | JIANGHU CHRONICLES | $17.99 | 2,046 70% | 61k | $1.1M (exactly $1,104,226) | 一品阁 | |
| | Hadean Tactics | older | $19.99 | 1,725 89% | 52k | $1.0M (exactly $1,034,482) | Emberfish Games |
| | Dark Envoy | older | $29.99 | 783 69% | 23k | $704k (exactly $704,465) | Event Horizon |
 | Blackthorn Arena: Reforged | $24.99 | 882 66% | 26k | $661k (exactly $661,235) | PersonaeGame Studio | |
 | We Are The Dwarves | older | $14.99 | 1,072 75% | 32k | $482k (exactly $482,078) | Whale Rock Games |
 | Mech Engineer | older | $14.99 | 928 74% | 28k | $417k (exactly $417,322) | KiberKreker |
 | Dwerve | older | $19.99 | 426 70% | 13k | $255k (exactly $255,472) | Half Human Games |
 | CD 2: Trap Master | older | $14.99 | 330 79% | 9.9k | $148k (exactly $148,401) | ACE ENTERTAINMENT |
 | 巴哈姆特1-REMAKE(BAHAMUT1-REMAKE) | $9.99 | 170 95% | 5.1k | $51k (exactly $50,949) | 王韋 | |
 | Tap Dungeon | $4.99 | 334 81% | 10k | $50k (exactly $50,000) | Xiao5 Studios | |
 | Swords And Magic: Path Of Conquest | · EA | $9.99 | 128 77% | 3.8k | $38k (exactly $38,362) | ShadowMoon Wolf Game Tech Ltd |
 | Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire | $19.99 | 41 70% | 1.2k | $25k (exactly $24,588) | Schell Games | |
 | Chaos Entropy | $11.00 | 48 89% | 1.4k | $16k (exactly $15,840) | MILLIDIA | |
 | Underquest | $9.99 | 39 94% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | Otherside Bay Studio | |
 | Millennium Strategy | $14.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | MiMo Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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