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Should I ship a Dynamic Narration Roguelike?
Dynamic Narration + Roguelike
Only 11 developers shipped a Dynamic Narration Roguelike 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, Your Mother, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced, ×4.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $7.8k, ×16 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $630; 1 in 20 cleared $250k, ×527 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 35 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $628 (exactly $628) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $21,741) |
| Top 5% | $251k (exactly $250,549) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 35 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 down 50% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Dynamic Narration
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Roguelike
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Dynamic Narration, Roguelike
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 8,680 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. 35 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dynamic Narration with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SportsStrong odds
- + IncrementalFair
- + IdlerFair
- + ModernFair
- + TacticalFair
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
- + Word GamePoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
Comparable games
Curious Expedition 2 2021 · $2.3M 
Curious Expedition 2016 · $1.8M 
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience 2020 · $1.6M 
Heading Out 2024 · $383k 
Your Mother 2025 · $251k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Curious Expedition 2 | older | $19.99 | 3,861 88% | 116k | $2.3M (exactly $2,315,442) | Maschinen-Mensch |
| | Curious Expedition | older | $14.99 | 3,951 91% | 119k | $1.8M (exactly $1,776,765) | Maschinen-Mensch |
| | CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience | older | $19.99 | 2,596 91% | 78k | $1.6M (exactly $1,556,821) | Delve Interactive |
| | Heading Out | older | $19.99 | 639 74% | 19k | $383k (exactly $383,208) | Serious Sim, Crunching Koalas |
| | Your Mother | $0.99 | 8,436 92% | 253k | $251k (exactly $250,549) | M for Mother | |
 | Ed-0: Zombie Uprising | older | $29.99 | 211 72% | 6.3k | $190k (exactly $189,837) | LANCARSE |
 | Betrayal At Club Low | older | $9.99 | 538 97% | 16k | $161k (exactly $161,239) | Cosmo D Studios |
 | Endless Dark | $7.99 | 115 99% | 3.5k | $28k (exactly $27,566) | Little Light Studios, LLC | |
 | Once Upon a Rogue's Tale | · EA older | $12.49 | 65 92% | 2.0k | $24k (exactly $24,356) | PolyPirates UG, Lizard Child |
 | Uberlaufer | · EA older | $10.00 | 74 83% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $22,200) | Think Tank Decoy Software LLC |
 | Lethal Honor - Order of the Apocalypse | $24.99 | 29 96% | 870 | $22k (exactly $21,741) | Viral Studios | |
 | Steel Knight's ARMIS | $9.99 | 40 57% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,988) | Izanami Game Lab, Inc., FORCES | |
 | Aris Arcanum | $14.99 | 19 73% | 570 | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) | Broken Cane | |
 | The End Grows | $9.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) | Atopia.studio | |
 | The Cascadier | · EA | $10.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.3k (exactly $1,319) | Enchanted Arcade |
 | Domain of Hallucination | · EA | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Wid… (Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Widmer, Jonas Wiesli, rnaisa) |
 | Cognite | $3.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | Frosted Wings Studio | |
 | Endless Roll | $3.49 | 1 100% | 30 | $105 (exactly $105) | Hermit Hollow |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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