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Should I ship a War Dungeon Crawler?
Dungeon Crawler + War
Only 12 developers shipped a War 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, Three Kingdoms Mushouden, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.5k, ×10 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $480; 1 in 20 cleared $1.4M, ×2240 the market median. Revenue is up 120% on the market; 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $479 (exactly $479) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.5k (exactly $6,472) |
| Top 25% | $18k (exactly $17,988) |
| Top 5% | $1.4M (exactly $1,406,437) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 120% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- War
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Dungeon Crawler
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 5,020 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dungeon Crawler with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Time ManagementFair
- + GamblingFair
- + DiceFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + ZombiesFair
- + Word GameFair
- + ThrillerFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + DwarvesPoor odds
Comparable games
Three Kingdoms Mushouden 2025 · $1.4M 
How Many Dudes? 2026 · $1.3M 
LEVEL UP 80 2024 · $119k 
Shelter Manager 2021 · $113k 
Trinity Trigger 2023 · $89k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Three Kingdoms Mushouden | $24.99 | 1,876 72% | 56k | $1.4M (exactly $1,406,437) | NanBei Studio | |
| | How Many Dudes? | $14.99 | 2,948 89% | 88k | $1.3M (exactly $1,325,716) | Butterscotch Shenanigans | |
| | LEVEL UP 80 | older | $39.99 | 99 79% | 3.0k | $119k (exactly $118,770) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Shelter Manager | older | $14.99 | 251 62% | 7.5k | $113k (exactly $112,875) | Hamsters Gaming |
| | Trinity Trigger | older | $29.99 | 99 59% | 3.0k | $89k (exactly $89,070) | FURYU Corporation |
 | 三国真龙传 | older | $4.99 | 567 77% | 17k | $85k (exactly $84,880) | 怪侠一枝梅 |
 | Uberlaufer | · EA older | $10.00 | 74 83% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $22,200) | Think Tank Decoy Software LLC |
 | Dead Wells: The Devil Fragment | $14.99 | 40 70% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Echo7Project | |
 | Vault of Power | $11.99 | 50 62% | 1.5k | $18k (exactly $17,985) | Jim Games | |
 | Arinoa: Conquest | $14.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $7.2k (exactly $7,195) | Alternate | |
 | Zombie Epoch:Deck Apocalypse | $7.99 | 27 62% | 810 | $6.5k (exactly $6,472) | HY Indie Game | |
 | Fell in love with the Nobility girl As a member of the rebel organization | $6.99 | 28 78% | 840 | $5.9k (exactly $5,872) | selenophobia | |
 | Letters of longing | $2.99 | 32 96% | 960 | $2.9k (exactly $2,870) | Happy Break Bones | |
 | VADE RETRO SATANA | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Salazar Productions | |
 | KAIBIL | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Salazar Productions |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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