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Should I ship a Dystopian Mystery Dungeon?
Mystery Dungeon + Dystopian
Only 9 developers shipped a Dystopian Mystery Dungeon 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, Midnight Murder Maze, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, ×1.3 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $2.5k, ×5.3 the market median. Revenue is down 65% on the market; 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $598 (exactly $598) |
| Top 25% | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) |
| Top 5% | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 65% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Dystopian
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Mystery Dungeon
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $6.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 185 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Mystery Dungeon with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + JRPGStrong odds
- + TacticalStrong odds
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + RomanceFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + PhysicsFair
Comparable games
DreamBreak 2016 · $10k 
JongRo 3_Street 2024 · $6.5k 
Magirune 2 2023 · $5.4k 
Midnight Murder Maze 2025 · $2.5k 
The Backrooms: Forsaken 2025 · $2.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DreamBreak | older | $6.99 | 48 56% | 1.4k | $10k (exactly $10,066) | Fortell Games |
| | JongRo 3_Street | older | $6.99 | 31 58% | 930 | $6.5k (exactly $6,501) | BlueKim |
| | Magirune 2 | older | $4.99 | 36 100% | 1.1k | $5.4k (exactly $5,389) | Fluffy Lotus |
| | Midnight Murder Maze | $6.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Rum Shack Studios LLC | |
| | The Backrooms: Forsaken | $5.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Fred Grant Studios | |
 | The Cesspit | older | $4.99 | 11 54% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | BlueTale |
 | FEEDERS | · EA | $3.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) | Luvi Technologies |
 | Legend of the Moon | older | $2.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.1k (exactly $1,076) | GozipGame |
 | The Complex Tragedy | older | $2.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Kubilay Dekin |
 | Odessa | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Aldorlea Games | |
 | OKIRO | $3.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Ziya Gao, Songya Xu, Zhenxi Zhang, Tina… (Ziya Gao, Songya Xu, Zhenxi Zhang, Tina Yao) | |
 | Dustline | $1.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Dustline Studio | |
 | United Heist: Facility Zero | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | No more Sleep | |
 | Cursed station | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Bloqiya M.R.W | |
 | CONCRETE BURIAL | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Games From The Abyss |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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