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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Precision Platformer?
Mystery Dungeon + Precision Platformer
Only 5 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Precision Platformer 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, Sombra, 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, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $150 against a market of $480. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) |
| Top 5% | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Mystery Dungeon, Precision Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $10.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 418 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 8 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Mystery Dungeon with a different second tag, 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
DOOMER'S ADVENTURE 2021 · $19k 
JustAxe 2024 · $17k 
Awesome Pea 2018 · $14k 
Man in gravity 2020 · $9.0k 
Old Tunnel 2023 · $7.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DOOMER'S ADVENTURE | older | $9.99 | 64 85% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $19,181) | deadworld games |
| | JustAxe | older | $10.99 | 53 73% | 1.6k | $17k (exactly $17,474) | Supergalactiс Gamedev |
| | Awesome Pea | older | $4.99 | 94 82% | 2.8k | $14k (exactly $14,072) | PigeonDev |
| | Man in gravity | older | $24.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | Old Tunnel | older | $8.99 | 29 72% | 870 | $7.8k (exactly $7,821) | HugePixel |
 | Hunter Girls | older | $4.99 | 50 78% | 1.5k | $7.5k (exactly $7,485) | · |
 | Dwarfer | older | $4.99 | 24 95% | 720 | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) | SUJIKO Media Group |
 | Pocket Witch | older | $1.99 | 47 95% | 1.4k | $2.8k (exactly $2,806) | Naoka Studio, Pufferfish Digital |
 | Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game | older | $2.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $2.8k (exactly $2,781) | YAW Studios |
 | Sombra | $5.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | SytoDev | |
 | Levitation Simulator 2 | $2.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | OZNA STUDIO | |
 | MeowSon | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | CrAzy GAmes CreAtor | |
 | Orbit Maze | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Esra Koç Yılmaz | |
 | Hang in there | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Skogman |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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