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Should I ship a Romance Mystery Dungeon?
Mystery Dungeon + Romance
Only 12 developers shipped a Romance 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, Lord Ambermaze, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.8k, ×12 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $2.0k. Revenue is up 95% on the market; 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.8k (exactly $5,755) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $29,053) |
| Top 5% | $59k (exactly $58,911) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply as many developers as 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
- Romance
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Mystery Dungeon
- Price point
- $11.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 459 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.0k. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Mystery Dungeon with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Perma DeathFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + PhysicsFair
- + ThrillerFair
Comparable games
Boyfriend Dungeon 2021 · $1.3M 
From Frontier 2020 · $172k 
Dungeon Dreams 2 2024 · $125k 
Yes My Lord 2022 · $92k 
Gears of Dragoon: Fragments of a New Era 2023 · $62k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Boyfriend Dungeon | older | $19.99 | 2,105 91% | 63k | $1.3M (exactly $1,262,368) | Kitfox Games |
| | From Frontier | older | $15.99 | 359 96% | 11k | $172k (exactly $172,212) | Doubles Core |
| | Dungeon Dreams 2 | older | $19.99 | 209 90% | 6.3k | $125k (exactly $125,337) | DDreams Games |
| | Yes My Lord | older | $14.99 | 204 95% | 6.1k | $92k (exactly $91,739) | Doubles Core |
| | Gears of Dragoon: Fragments of a New Era | older | $34.99 | 59 76% | 1.8k | $62k (exactly $61,932) | Ninetail |
 | Lord Ambermaze | $14.99 | 131 91% | 3.9k | $59k (exactly $58,911) | Potata Company | |
 | Hero in an All-Forgiving Fantasy World RPG | $16.99 | 74 74% | 2.2k | $38k (exactly $37,718) | INAZUMA GAMES | |
 | Enatus Radi | older | $16.99 | 71 85% | 2.1k | $36k (exactly $36,189) | Crazy Nirin |
 | The Cuniculus of Paradise | $16.99 | 57 87% | 1.7k | $29k (exactly $29,053) | Doubles Core | |
 | Aquilon's Sex Quest | $6.99 | 112 70% | 3.4k | $23k (exactly $23,486) | Aquilon | |
 | Monster Lily | $14.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Kasha Club | |
 | Senpai and the Mysterious Island | $11.99 | 16 37% | 480 | $5.8k (exactly $5,755) | Ruhut Soft | |
 | The Backrooms: Forsaken | $5.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Fred Grant Studios | |
 | ORPHEUS: TO HELL AND BACK | $2.99 | 25 68% | 750 | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) | StudioLoading, Kibou Entertainment, Alu… (StudioLoading, Kibou Entertainment, Alunite,Inc.) | |
 | Dead Silence - Echoes of the Damned | $4.99 | 13 38% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Persian Dare | |
 | Devil Hearts | $16.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.5k (exactly $1,529) | DDreams Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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