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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Score Attack game?
Mystery Dungeon + Score Attack
Only 7 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Score Attack 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, SHINONOME ABYSS The Maiden Exorcist, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $238 (exactly $238) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) |
| Top 5% | $25k (exactly $25,183) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 7 |
| 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 150% more 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
- Score Attack
- 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, Score Attack
- 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 362 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 7 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Mystery Dungeon with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + RomanceFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + PhysicsFair
Comparable games
Dandy Dungeon - Legend of Brave Yamada - 2019 · $50k 
AbsentedAge: Squarebound 2020 · $26k 
SHINONOME ABYSS The Maiden Exorcist 2026 · $25k 
Dungeon and Gravestone 2021 · $13k 
Man in gravity 2020 · $9.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dandy Dungeon - Legend of Brave Yamada - | older | $18.99 | 87 85% | 2.6k | $50k (exactly $49,564) | Onion Games |
| | AbsentedAge: Squarebound | older | $12.99 | 67 91% | 2.0k | $26k (exactly $26,110) | terunon's Lab |
| | SHINONOME ABYSS The Maiden Exorcist | $14.99 | 56 78% | 1.7k | $25k (exactly $25,183) | WODAN,Inc. | |
| | Dungeon and Gravestone | older | $24.99 | 17 52% | 510 | $13k (exactly $12,745) | Wonderland Kazakiri inc. |
| | Man in gravity | older | $24.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From The Sewers | older | $4.99 | 44 95% | 1.3k | $6.6k (exactly $6,587) | Slay Buherman |
 | Starcaller | older | $6.99 | 16 68% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | Monarch Studio |
 | Card Rogue | $4.99 | 22 63% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Game Tsukuru Kun | |
 | THE ABYSS | older | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Ilya873 |
 | Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game | older | $2.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $2.8k (exactly $2,781) | YAW Studios |
 | The Power of Doznath | $3.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Finebow Games | |
 | Moshcave | $0.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $238 (exactly $238) | LGV | |
 | Where is my hat? | $1.00 | 3 100% | 90 | $90 (exactly $90) | God's Hat Team | |
 | Bounce Adventure | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | C.S.Vino | |
 | Maze Mischief | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gleison Souza |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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