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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Top-Down Shooter?
Mystery Dungeon + Top-Down Shooter
Only 9 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Top-Down Shooter 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, Touhou ~Red Empress Devil., made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 17 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $358 (exactly $358) |
| Top 25% | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) |
| Top 5% | $118k (exactly $118,129) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 17 |
| 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 down 80% on the market, supply 25% 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
- Top-Down Shooter
- 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, Top-Down Shooter
- 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 $8.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 1,034 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Mystery Dungeon with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + TacticalStrong odds
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + RomanceFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Tactical RPGFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + PhysicsFair
Comparable games
Touhou ~Red Empress Devil. 2025 · $118k 
Diabolic 2018 · $28k 
F*ck the HELL out 2024 · $14k 
Holy Shot 2025 · $9.5k 
Lost Scale: Part One 2021 · $7.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Touhou ~Red Empress Devil. | $8.99 | 438 70% | 13k | $118k (exactly $118,129) | STUDIO POCO | |
| | Diabolic | older | $2.99 | 307 84% | 9.2k | $28k (exactly $27,538) | MyDreamForever |
| | F*ck the HELL out | older | $4.99 | 95 86% | 2.9k | $14k (exactly $14,222) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Holy Shot | $5.99 | 53 84% | 1.6k | $9.5k (exactly $9,524) | LoneWolf Digital Arts | |
| | 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 |
 | Guns And Draguns | older | $12.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $5.5k (exactly $5,456) | Infinite Stairs |
 | Mustache in Hell | older | $2.99 | 43 95% | 1.3k | $3.9k (exactly $3,857) | IdunaSoft |
 | Seeker Quest: The Creature Collector | $6.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Jestercraft | |
 | Fish or Chicken Chicken Survivor | older | $2.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $1.4k (exactly $1,435) | XXL |
 | Arrow Dungeon | $8.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | ParkDol | |
 | Dream's frog | $1.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $358 (exactly $358) | Slay Buherman | |
 | Realmlords | · EA | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | UltraPwned Gaming |
 | Scout-TheBunker | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | MadMilan | |
 | Endless Robot dash | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 0cd studio | |
 | Stealth-Rogue-Escape | · EA | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mysterious Legion |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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