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Should I ship a Dungeon Crawler Trading Card Game?
Trading Card Game + Dungeon Crawler
Only 10 developers shipped a Dungeon Crawler Trading Card Game 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, Villages & Dungeons, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.3k, ×3.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $480; 1 in 20 cleared $210k, ×346 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 24 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $480 (exactly $480) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.3k (exactly $2,310) |
| Top 25% | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) |
| Top 5% | $217k (exactly $217,249) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Trading Card Game
- 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
- Trading Card Game, Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $11.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 90% positive over 1,163 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 6 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Trading Card Game with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + SandboxFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + CollectathonPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Auto BattlerPoor odds
- + Roguelike DeckbuilderPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
Comparable games
Heroes Wanted 2024 · $320k 
FORCED SHOWDOWN 2016 · $294k 
Villages & Dungeons 2025 · $217k 
Power Chord 2023 · $102k 
Chainsaw Warrior (Classic) 2013 · $34k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Heroes Wanted | older | $19.99 | 533 81% | 16k | $320k (exactly $319,640) | Gameplete |
| | FORCED SHOWDOWN | older | $19.99 | 491 82% | 15k | $294k (exactly $294,453) | BetaDwarf |
| | Villages & Dungeons | $6.99 | 1,036 91% | 31k | $217k (exactly $217,249) | CaCaFrog Studio | |
| | Power Chord | older | $19.99 | 170 71% | 5.1k | $102k (exactly $101,949) | Big Blue Bubble |
| | Chainsaw Warrior (Classic) | older | $4.99 | 229 64% | 6.9k | $34k (exactly $34,281) | Auroch Digital |
 | Handmancers | · EA | $14.99 | 76 88% | 2.3k | $34k (exactly $34,177) | 58BLADES |
 | Card Crawl | older | $2.99 | 175 76% | 5.3k | $16k (exactly $15,698) | Arnold Rauers |
 | Deep, In the Forest | older | $8.99 | 44 56% | 1.3k | $12k (exactly $11,867) | Satur Entertainment |
 | Millennium Strategy | $14.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | MiMo Games | |
 | Treasure Atlas | · EA | $11.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | zzeerr |
 | Sketch Crawler | $7.00 | 11 72% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,310) | Koan | |
 | Necrocat | $3.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Noct Paradox | |
 | Tenebrix | · EA | $15.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | ColdForge Games |
 | Random Isles | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Mounight | |
 | ONLY DEAD | $12.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Games For Me | |
 | Cat & Mouse Dungeon | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Xunx |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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