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Should I ship a Steampunk Dungeon Crawler?
Dungeon Crawler + Steampunk
Only 8 developers shipped a Steampunk 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, Abyssus, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×7.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.1k against a market of $630. 30 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.1k (exactly $2,097) |
| Top 25% | $35k (exactly $34,627) |
| Top 5% | $3.8M (exactly $3,758,996) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 30 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 100% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Steampunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $14.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 75,881 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 30 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dungeon Crawler with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + ThrillerFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + DwarvesPoor odds
Comparable games
Torchlight II 2012 · $20M 
Torchlight III 2020 · $12M 
Battle Chasers: Nightwar 2017 · $5.0M 
Abyssus 2025 · $3.8M 
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2013 · $3.5M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Torchlight II | older | $19.99 | 33,094 92% | 993k | $20M (exactly $19,846,472) | Runic Games |
| | Torchlight III | older | $39.99 | 10,401 47% | 312k | $12M (exactly $12,478,080) | Echtra Inc. |
| | Battle Chasers: Nightwar | older | $29.99 | 5,573 87% | 167k | $5.0M (exactly $5,014,028) | Airship Syndicate |
| | Abyssus | $24.99 | 5,014 84% | 150k | $3.8M (exactly $3,758,996) | DoubleMoose Games | |
| | The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing | older | $14.99 | 7,720 83% | 232k | $3.5M (exactly $3,471,684) | NeocoreGames |
 | Torchlight | older | $14.99 | 5,462 90% | 164k | $2.5M (exactly $2,456,261) | Runic Games |
 | Victor Vran ARPG | older | $19.99 | 3,708 84% | 111k | $2.2M (exactly $2,223,688) | Haemimont Games |
 | Little Noah: Scion of Paradise | older | $14.99 | 2,172 92% | 65k | $977k (exactly $976,748) | Cygames, Inc., Grounding Inc. |
 | The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II | older | $14.99 | 1,954 70% | 59k | $879k (exactly $878,714) | NeocoreGames |
 | Dark Envoy | older | $29.99 | 783 69% | 23k | $704k (exactly $704,465) | Event Horizon |
 | Last Vanguard | $14.99 | 77 81% | 2.3k | $35k (exactly $34,627) | Cool Tapir Studios | |
 | The Dawn: Sniper's Way | $24.99 | 18 22% | 540 | $13k (exactly $13,495) | PHOSPHORUS GAMES | |
 | Tinker-World: Arrival at Kedhreon | $6.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $2.1k (exactly $2,097) | From The Cave, TibiSoft | |
 | Westfall | · EA | $4.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Metavision Studio |
 | Anyship | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Schuette Games | |
 | How to Write a Book without Getting Killed | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Blue Sword Gaming | |
 | Patagon | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Something Awesome Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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