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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Time Management game?
Mystery Dungeon + Time Management
Only 11 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Time Management 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, Onychomp : Lush journey, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.9 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $210. Revenue is up 295475% on the market; 8 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) |
| Top 5% | $7.0k (exactly $7,015) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, 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
- Time Management
- 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, Time Management
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 95% positive over 67 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 8 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.
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- + RomanceFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + PhysicsFair
- + ThrillerFair
Comparable games
Dungeon Dreams 2 2024 · $125k 
[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 2021 · $65k 
The Rings of Powder 2023 · $18k 
LiMiT's Escape Room Games 2022 · $12k 
LiMiT's Escape Room Games 2 2023 · $12k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dungeon Dreams 2 | older | $19.99 | 209 90% | 6.3k | $125k (exactly $125,337) | DDreams Games |
| | [Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 | older | $4.99 | 431 80% | 13k | $65k (exactly $64,521) | Chilla's Art |
| | The Rings of Powder | older | $12.99 | 45 95% | 1.4k | $18k (exactly $17,536) | Artificial Worlds |
| | 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 |
 | Onychomp : Lush journey | $12.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $7.0k (exactly $7,015) | Howl Studio | |
 | Summoner's Mess | older | $2.99 | 66 95% | 2.0k | $5.9k (exactly $5,920) | Elendow |
 | Starcaller | older | $6.99 | 16 68% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | Monarch Studio |
 | Drag'N Dungeon | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Demon Girl | |
 | Lightkeeper's Curse | $8.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) | Shire Brew Studios | |
 | Please Proceed To The Dungeon | $4.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Noodle Interactive | |
 | Hello Anxiety | $6.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) | Aleph Echo | |
 | Burger Witch | $4.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Cyber752 | |
 | Dungeon Fortress : Overlord | · EA | $14.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Boonplay |
 | Agents of Shadow | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Hoffnung Haydn | |
 | Blindernoth | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ima shouganai | |
 | Serre | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Serre interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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