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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Mystery Dungeon
Only 12 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Real Time Tactics 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, Guidus Zero, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 3 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 3 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $240 (exactly $240) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 5% | $274k (exactly $273,867) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 3 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 970% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Real Time Tactics
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics, Mystery Dungeon
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 75% positive over 670 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 3 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Outbreak SimFair
- + HackingFair
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
We Are The Dwarves 2016 · $482k 
Guidus Zero 2025 · $274k 
The Land Beneath Us 2024 · $103k 
[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 2021 · $65k 
Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire 2024 · $25k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | We Are The Dwarves | older | $14.99 | 1,072 75% | 32k | $482k (exactly $482,078) | Whale Rock Games |
| | Guidus Zero | $14.99 | 609 75% | 18k | $274k (exactly $273,867) | izzle | |
| | The Land Beneath Us | older | $14.99 | 230 79% | 6.9k | $103k (exactly $103,431) | FairPlay Studios |
| | [Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 | older | $4.99 | 431 80% | 13k | $65k (exactly $64,521) | Chilla's Art |
| | Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire | $19.99 | 41 70% | 1.2k | $25k (exactly $24,588) | Schell Games | |
 | The Rings of Powder | older | $12.99 | 45 95% | 1.4k | $18k (exactly $17,536) | Artificial Worlds |
 | Dungeons Of The Deep | older | $14.99 | 22 59% | 660 | $9.9k (exactly $9,893) | Gray Mantis |
 | Mostly Intense Monster Defense | older | $4.99 | 47 87% | 1.4k | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) | Patsui Games |
 | Endorfire Tower Defense | older | $9.99 | 19 68% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | The Zoo |
 | Kanji Industry | · EA older | $6.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $5.5k (exactly $5,452) | Tsune Studio |
 | Drag'N Dungeon | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Demon Girl | |
 | Dungeon Fortress : Overlord | · EA | $14.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Boonplay |
 | Dream's frog | $1.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $358 (exactly $358) | Slay Buherman | |
 | 150 Floors | · EA | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Bindlestick Media |
 | Li O's Online World | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Lil knee Games | |
 | Light'Em Up | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tiny Launches | |
 | Hotel Security | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gyoddam Games | |
 | Can't You Run? | · EA | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | AkionGames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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