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Should I ship a Dungeon Crawler Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Dungeon Crawler
Only 14 developers shipped a Dungeon Crawler Spectacle fighter 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, Metal Bringer, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×1.2 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $660k, ×444 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 17 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) |
| Top 25% | $9.9k (exactly $9,897) |
| Top 5% | $665k (exactly $665,067) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 down 70% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Dungeon Crawler
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,362 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 7 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION 2023 · $1.1M 
Metal Bringer 2025 · $665k 
Samurai Bringer 2022 · $303k 
LEVEL UP 80 2024 · $119k 
Santhai 2022 · $53k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION | older | $2.99 | 12,437 94% | 373k | $1.1M (exactly $1,115,599) | Agafonoff |
| | Metal Bringer | $19.99 | 1,109 87% | 33k | $665k (exactly $665,067) | ALPHAWING Inc. | |
| | Samurai Bringer | older | $9.99 | 1,012 87% | 30k | $303k (exactly $303,296) | ALPHAWING Inc. |
| | LEVEL UP 80 | older | $39.99 | 99 79% | 3.0k | $119k (exactly $118,770) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Santhai | older | $12.99 | 137 89% | 4.1k | $53k (exactly $53,389) | Hardworker Studio, Rachan Neamprasert |
 | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Death Below | older | $9.99 | 63 58% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $18,881) | Soft |
 | Ascension to the Throne: Valkyrie | $4.99 | 102 89% | 3.1k | $15k (exactly $15,269) | DVS | |
 | Touhou Brawl | $11.99 | 39 51% | 1.2k | $14k (exactly $14,028) | FIVE DUCK GAMES | |
 | Realm | $29.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $9.9k (exactly $9,897) | Mighty Pixel Crew | |
 | REAPER | $2.99 | 59 84% | 1.8k | $5.3k (exactly $5,292) | DOSMan Games | |
 | Taram Baba | $4.00 | 15 93% | 450 | $1.8k (exactly $1,800) | Sofa Interactive | |
 | Phantom Fools | $9.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Simply The Best | |
 | Ritualist | $2.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | SHARQ IT LAB | |
 | Sewer Crawler | $1.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $537 (exactly $537) | Gromi Momi | |
 | Parasited Will | · EA | $5.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Underground Interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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