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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Mystery Dungeon
Only 8 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Spectacle fighter 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, Stonemachia, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.6k against a market of $1.5k. 14 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) |
| Top 25% | $541k (exactly $541,215) |
| Top 5% | $746k (exactly $746,027) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $10.99 |
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 462425% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Mystery Dungeon
- Price point
- $10.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 3,081 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 14 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Stonemachia 2026 · $746k 
Rustil: Eternal Labyrinth Castle 2026 · $541k 
Firelight Fantasy: Phoenix Crew 2021 · $73k 
Firelight Fantasy: Vengeance 2022 · $60k 
Santhai 2022 · $53k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stonemachia | $19.99 | 1,244 95% | 37k | $746k (exactly $746,027) | Crossfall Games | |
| | Rustil: Eternal Labyrinth Castle | $18.99 | 950 71% | 29k | $541k (exactly $541,215) | KTMG LLC. | |
| | Firelight Fantasy: Phoenix Crew | older | $13.99 | 173 78% | 5.2k | $73k (exactly $72,608) | Quacky Games |
| | Firelight Fantasy: Vengeance | older | $13.99 | 142 79% | 4.3k | $60k (exactly $59,597) | Quacky Games |
| | Santhai | older | $12.99 | 137 89% | 4.1k | $53k (exactly $53,389) | Hardworker Studio, Rachan Neamprasert |
 | Happy Souls | older | $39.99 | 37 75% | 1.1k | $44k (exactly $44,389) | Galactic Geckon |
 | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Death Below | older | $9.99 | 63 58% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $18,881) | Soft |
 | Jacob The Farmer | older | $4.99 | 50 74% | 1.5k | $7.5k (exactly $7,485) | Quarlellle |
 | Cemetery Warrior V | older | $3.99 | 32 71% | 960 | $3.8k (exactly $3,830) | Falco Software |
 | Duil | $11.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | JL studio | |
 | Valenium | $10.99 | 5 20% | 150 | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) | Need3RD | |
 | Run Eternal Depths | $0.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $267 (exactly $267) | Artyom Gudkov | |
 | Apocalypse of the Universe | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | v.a.c.u.u.m. | |
 | Forgotten spirit | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | BurningGRP | |
 | Dungeon Hero | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Taranau Aliaksei |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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