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Should I ship a Word Game Dungeon Crawler?
Dungeon Crawler + Word Game
Only 12 developers shipped a Word Game 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, Tomb of the Bloodletter, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.9 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $180. Revenue is up 655% on the market; 15 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $2.1k (exactly $2,064) |
| Top 5% | $24k (exactly $23,970) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 655% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Word Game
- effort 1 / 10 · high · dictionary logic and simple UI
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Dungeon Crawler, Word Game
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 254 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 15 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Dungeon Crawler with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Cryptmaster 2024 · $1.3M 
灵墟 2023 · $312k 
Tomb of the Bloodletter 2026 · $24k 
Words Can Kill 2022 · $22k 
Eternal Sword Tomb 2026 · EA · $18k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cryptmaster | older | $24.99 | 1,671 94% | 50k | $1.3M (exactly $1,252,749) | Paul Hart, Lee Williams, Akupara Games |
| | 灵墟 | older | $10.99 | 946 86% | 28k | $312k (exactly $311,896) | HappyTall Game |
| | Tomb of the Bloodletter | $7.99 | 100 88% | 3.0k | $24k (exactly $23,970) | Ethan's Secretions | |
| | Words Can Kill | older | $7.99 | 92 70% | 2.8k | $22k (exactly $22,052) | Typing Monkey |
| | Eternal Sword Tomb | · EA | $8.99 | 68 77% | 2.0k | $18k (exactly $18,340) | 阿郎 |
 | Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin | older | $5.99 | 96 92% | 2.9k | $17k (exactly $17,251) | 小矩工作室 |
 | 黎明为歌 - Melody before the Dawn | older | $4.99 | 62 88% | 1.9k | $9.3k (exactly $9,281) | Rolling Cat Studio |
 | 新叶旅者与少年的回忆 | older | $3.99 | 71 83% | 2.1k | $8.5k (exactly $8,499) | project bamboo |
 | My Mud Game | · EA older | $15.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $3.4k (exactly $3,358) | Red Cat Studio |
 | Margarita (Berkeley's Maid: Remake Edition) | · EA | $1.60 | 43 60% | 1.3k | $2.1k (exactly $2,064) | Muharukahana Studio, Cydron |
 | Invisible Room | $4.99 | 10 50% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Invisible Rabbit | |
 | 文字城邦 | $1.99 | 19 68% | 570 | $1.1k (exactly $1,134) | 齿轮游戏 | |
 | Wordforge: Silent Letters | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Les Ganton | |
 | 赴生 | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | 月核 | |
 | 饥饿的英灵殿 | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | 饥饿殿主 | |
 | Spellrite | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Ethan Pribadi | |
 | 《道格拉斯警督的日记》 | $0.99 | 6 0% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | 日食网络 solar eclipse studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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