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Should I ship a Gothic Mystery Dungeon?
Mystery Dungeon + Gothic
Only 12 developers shipped a Gothic 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, The Fortress, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.5k, ×9.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $2.0k; 1 in 20 cleared $31k, ×67 the market median. Revenue is up 25% on the market; 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.0k (exactly $1,970) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) |
| Top 25% | $25k (exactly $24,588) |
| Top 5% | $32k (exactly $31,665) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 20 |
| 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 25% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, 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
- Gothic
- 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
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 396 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.0k. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
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
Dracula: Love Kills 2013 · $89k 
The Fortress 2026 · $32k 
Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch 2025 · $27k 
Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire 2024 · $25k 
The Dream Labyrinth 2024 · $20k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dracula: Love Kills | older | $9.99 | 298 80% | 8.9k | $89k (exactly $89,311) | Waterlily Games |
| | The Fortress | $6.99 | 151 68% | 4.5k | $32k (exactly $31,665) | Baryonyx Games | |
| | Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch | $14.99 | 61 70% | 1.8k | $27k (exactly $27,432) | Dvora Studio Co. Ltd. | |
| | Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire | $19.99 | 41 70% | 1.2k | $25k (exactly $24,588) | Schell Games | |
| | The Dream Labyrinth | $14.99 | 44 81% | 1.3k | $20k (exactly $19,787) | GGG`s | |
 | The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana | older | $9.99 | 53 92% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $15,884) | Monolith Graphics, The Hideout |
 | Searching For Rest | older | $5.99 | 68 95% | 2.0k | $12k (exactly $12,220) | Delightful Victory |
 | Dark Frame | older | $5.99 | 59 52% | 1.8k | $11k (exactly $10,602) | Nimos Games |
 | Doctor Arcana and The Secret of Shadowspire | $14.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Monolith Graphics, The Hideout | |
 | Asylum Nightmares | older | $10.99 | 19 84% | 570 | $6.3k (exactly $6,264) | NecoPlanet |
 | Daughter of The Void | · EA | $9.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Shaybabe |
 | Unwanted Dungeon | $7.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Conrado Saud, Conrado Saud | |
 | SUBMERSIBLE | $8.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | CJB Games | |
 | Directory Dungeon - File Explorer Dungeon Crawler | $1.99 | 33 100% | 990 | $2.0k (exactly $1,970) | JuhrJuhr | |
 | Run Eternal Depths | $0.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $267 (exactly $267) | Artyom Gudkov |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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