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Should I ship a Loot Tabletop game?
Loot + Tabletop
Only 11 developers shipped a Loot Tabletop 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, Loot of Baal, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.1k, ×4.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $370k, ×589 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 22 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) |
| Top 25% | $32k (exactly $32,237) |
| Top 5% | $370k (exactly $370,028) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 57 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Loot, Tabletop
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 64% positive over 1,746 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 22 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Loot with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Artificial IntelligenceStrong odds
- + Local Co-OpStrong odds
- + SteampunkStrong odds
- + CapitalismFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + JRPGFair
- + EconomyFair
- + IdlerFair
- + CatsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Creature CollectorFair
- + CollectathonFair
Comparable games
Tales & Tactics 2024 · $937k 
Loot of Baal 2025 · $370k 
DungeonTop 2020 · $217k 
Talisman: Digital 5th Edition 2024 · $204k 
Sea Horizon 2022 · $65k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tales & Tactics | older | $17.99 | 1,737 80% | 52k | $937k (exactly $937,459) | Table 9 Studio |
| | Loot of Baal | $8.99 | 1,372 62% | 41k | $370k (exactly $370,028) | Gleamer Studio | |
| | DungeonTop | older | $15.99 | 452 80% | 14k | $217k (exactly $216,824) | One Up Plus Entertainment |
| | Talisman: Digital 5th Edition | $29.99 | 227 70% | 6.8k | $204k (exactly $204,232) | Nomad Games | |
| | Sea Horizon | older | $14.99 | 145 75% | 4.4k | $65k (exactly $65,206) | 45 Studio |
 | Diablo The Abyss | older | $7.99 | 207 83% | 6.2k | $50k (exactly $49,618) | Friday Night |
 | Rogue | older | $2.99 | 498 94% | 15k | $45k (exactly $44,671) | Epyx, Inc. |
 | Successor | $24.99 | 43 60% | 1.3k | $32k (exactly $32,237) | Playwood Project | |
 | Rogue Dungeon | older | $14.99 | 49 77% | 1.5k | $22k (exactly $22,035) | Cerberus Gate Games |
 | CUBE ROYALE | · EA older | $9.99 | 47 93% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,086) | Creature Factory |
 | Knock on Fate：The Guardian Pusher | $5.99 | 58 87% | 1.7k | $10k (exactly $10,423) | 刚正面的红领巾 | |
 | Hero Quest - God of Chaos | · EA | $19.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Future Intellect LLC |
 | Petrified Pawns | $5.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) | Bepansrad Studio | |
 | Mercenary Squad Auto Chess | $5.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Ibuprofun | |
 | One Dice Dungeon Delve | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | stealthstack | |
 | Gap Storm | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Peace War Found | |
 | Logic Deck | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Boogygames Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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