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Should I ship a Tabletop Mystery Dungeon?
Mystery Dungeon + Tabletop
Only 11 developers shipped a Tabletop 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, Card Rogue, 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: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150, ×0.3 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. Revenue is down 85% on the market, with 10 games announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,518) |
| Top 5% | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 down 85% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, 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
- Tabletop
- 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, Tabletop
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 80% positive over 56 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 10 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Dynamic Dungeons Editor 2022 · $142k 
LiMiT's Escape Room Games 2022 · $12k 
LiMiT's Escape Room Games 2 2023 · $12k 
桃夭塔 TaoYaoTa 2021 · $6.0k 
Check and Slash 2024 · $3.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dynamic Dungeons Editor | older | $29.99 | 158 60% | 4.7k | $142k (exactly $142,153) | Dynamic Dungeons |
| | LiMiT's Escape Room Games | older | $3.99 | 104 66% | 3.1k | $12k (exactly $12,449) | Marco Hirschfeld |
| | LiMiT's Escape Room Games 2 | older | $11.99 | 34 94% | 1.0k | $12k (exactly $12,230) | Marco Hirschfeld |
| | 桃夭塔 TaoYaoTa | older | $4.99 | 40 62% | 1.2k | $6.0k (exactly $5,988) | 吃了就睡工作室, 桃之夭夭 |
| | Check and Slash | older | $4.99 | 24 91% | 720 | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) | Gate of Madness |
 | Card Rogue | $4.99 | 22 63% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Game Tsukuru Kun | |
 | Dice & Dungeons | older | $2.99 | 35 68% | 1.1k | $3.1k (exactly $3,140) | Beni Games |
 | Dungeon & Poker | $6.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) | Vansonstudio | |
 | Tileweaver | $11.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $2.5k (exactly $2,518) | Mattalarc & Wolter | |
 | Drakkon World Builder | older | $2.99 | 28 92% | 840 | $2.5k (exactly $2,512) | Electric Falcon LLC |
 | Questboard | $5.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Binary Cabin | |
 | Intermundia: Dungeons, Polygons & Magic | · EA | $5.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Trinity Team, Excaliber |
 | Dungeon (W)Hoarders | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Chad McCoskey | |
 | BoxIsland: Sokoban | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | ASON GAME | |
 | Grid World | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 一尾66 | |
 | Polterparty | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Eelsmooth |
 | The Gamble Maze | $10.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Innovative Potential |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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