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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Shoot 'Em Up?
Mystery Dungeon + Shoot 'Em Up
Only 6 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Shoot 'Em Up 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, DOWNMOUSE, 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, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $480. 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) |
| Top 5% | $3.0k (exactly $2,992) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| 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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 4%, 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
- Shoot 'Em Up
- 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, Shoot 'Em Up
- 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 $4.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 649 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 7 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 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
Spooky Station 2019 · $52k 
F*ck the HELL out 2024 · $14k 
Masked Forces 2: Mystic Demons 2017 · $10k 
Lost Scale: Part One 2021 · $7.5k 
Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From The Sewers 2021 · $6.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Spooky Station | older | $4.99 | 345 88% | 10k | $52k (exactly $51,646) | Coletivo Vaca Roxa, Vee, JoyMasher, PKO… (Coletivo Vaca Roxa, Vee, JoyMasher, PKO Game Studio, Spookids Team, Calangames, Expresso Studios, Pastel Studios, Heavy Sheep, LASTONE, Asteristic Game Studio) |
| | F*ck the HELL out | older | $4.99 | 95 86% | 2.9k | $14k (exactly $14,222) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Masked Forces 2: Mystic Demons | older | $4.99 | 67 73% | 2.0k | $10k (exactly $10,030) | FreezeNova |
| | Lost Scale: Part One | older | $24.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $7.5k (exactly $7,497) | Danicy |
| | Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From The Sewers | older | $4.99 | 44 95% | 1.3k | $6.6k (exactly $6,587) | Slay Buherman |
 | Adventure Rush | older | $9.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | MrBoscheinen |
 | Ritual: Spellcasting RPG | older | $9.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Hexage |
 | DOWNMOUSE | $3.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $3.0k (exactly $2,992) | WobblyHandStudio | |
 | Seeker Quest: The Creature Collector | $6.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Jestercraft | |
 | Dead No-Head | older | $4.99 | 13 61% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | BT Studios |
 | Dungeons Bomb | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | MARIOZY | |
 | Flooded Lands | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | OpxGaming | |
 | Medieval Halloween VR | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Eternal Drift Studio LLC |
 | County Hospital Outbreak | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | LFR Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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