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Should I ship a Magic Escape Room game?
Escape Room + Magic
Only 9 developers shipped a Magic Escape Room 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, Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240, ×0.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $9.8k, ×21 the market median. Revenue is up 140% on the market; 8 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $3.0k (exactly $2,999) |
| Top 5% | $9.9k (exactly $9,856) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 140% on the market, supply 50% 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.
- Escape Room
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Magic
- 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
- Escape Room; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Puzzle, Investigation
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $11.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Dark, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $11.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 65% positive over 157 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Escape Room with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationStrong odds
- + Online Co-OpFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + Choices MatterFair
- + SupernaturalFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + MysteryFair
- + Visual NovelFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + HorrorFair
- + Multiple EndingsFair
- + AdventureFair
Comparable games
The Night of the Rabbit 2013 · $1.7M 
Gray Matter 2014 · $159k 
CLeM 2024 · $115k 
Mystic Academy: Escape Room 2023 · $74k 
Mahjong Magic Journey 2018 · $61k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Night of the Rabbit | older | $19.99 | 2,757 89% | 83k | $1.7M (exactly $1,653,373) | Daedalic Entertainment |
| | Gray Matter | older | $9.99 | 532 90% | 16k | $159k (exactly $159,440) | WizarBox Production |
| | CLeM | older | $15.99 | 239 92% | 7.2k | $115k (exactly $114,648) | Mango Protocol |
| | Mystic Academy: Escape Room | older | $10.99 | 224 75% | 6.7k | $74k (exactly $73,853) | mc2games |
| | Mahjong Magic Journey | older | $14.99 | 136 80% | 4.1k | $61k (exactly $61,159) | Creobit |
 | Madorica Real Estate 2 - The mystery of the new property - | older | $19.99 | 49 93% | 1.5k | $29k (exactly $29,385) | GIFT TEN INDUSTRY K.K., TUMBLEWEEDJP |
 | 100 Worlds - Escape Room Game | older | $9.99 | 34 64% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | Peaksel |
 | Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary | $6.99 | 47 65% | 1.4k | $9.9k (exactly $9,856) | PlayTogether Studio | |
 | Tiny Robots: Portal Escape | $9.99 | 31 90% | 930 | $9.3k (exactly $9,291) | Big Loop Studios | |
 | Secrets of Salem: The Phantom Cab Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 16 62% | 480 | $5.8k (exactly $5,755) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Halloween Secrets: The Blood Vow Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 12 33% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Chivalry Quest: Sword and Flame Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Secrets of Salem: Shadow of the Witch Collector's Edition | $8.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.5k (exactly $3,506) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Escape from Hadrian's Wall | $24.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $3.0k (exactly $2,999) | Jim Gray Productions, Inc. | |
 | Enchanted Stories: PAWisoned Kingdom Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 7 42% | 210 | $2.5k (exactly $2,518) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Hidden Legacy: Dark Heirloom Collector's Edition | $8.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $2.2k (exactly $2,158) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Enchanted Stories: Mystic Woods Collector's Edition | $8.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $1.9k (exactly $1,888) | Do Games Limited |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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