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Should I ship a Mystery Dungeon Turn-Based game?
Turn-Based + Mystery Dungeon
Only 9 developers shipped a Mystery Dungeon Turn-Based 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, FANTASIAN Neo Dimension, 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.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.4k against a market of $630. 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) |
| Top 25% | $59k (exactly $58,911) |
| Top 5% | $750k (exactly $749,850) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 35% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Turn-Based
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Mystery Dungeon
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Turn-Based, Mystery Dungeon
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $34.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 12,492 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.1k. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Turn-Based with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerStrong odds
- + DragonsStrong odds
- + Hack and SlashStrong odds
- + SandboxFair
- + HorrorFair
- + CraftingFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + ChessFair
- + Tower DefensePoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
Comparable games
Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded- 2018 · $1.8M 
FANTASIAN Neo Dimension 2024 · $750k 
Shattered Pixel Dungeon 2022 · $631k 
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate 2020 · $534k 
Tangledeep 2018 · $483k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded- | older | $34.99 | 1,734 93% | 52k | $1.8M (exactly $1,820,180) | AQUASTYLE |
| | FANTASIAN Neo Dimension | $49.99 | 500 76% | 15k | $750k (exactly $749,850) | Mistwalker Corporation | |
| | Shattered Pixel Dungeon | older | $9.99 | 2,106 95% | 63k | $631k (exactly $631,168) | Shattered Pixel |
| | Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate | older | $19.99 | 891 75% | 27k | $534k (exactly $534,333) | Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. |
| | Tangledeep | older | $14.99 | 1,075 82% | 32k | $483k (exactly $483,428) | Impact Gameworks |
 | Omega Labyrinth Life | older | $59.99 | 263 64% | 7.9k | $473k (exactly $473,321) | Matrix |
 | One Way Heroics | older | $3.49 | 3,503 94% | 105k | $367k (exactly $366,764) | Smoking WOLF |
 | The Enchanted Cave 2 | older | $9.99 | 738 89% | 22k | $221k (exactly $221,179) | dustinaux |
 | Villages & Dungeons | $6.99 | 1,036 91% | 31k | $217k (exactly $217,249) | CaCaFrog Studio | |
 | The World is Your Weapon | older | $9.99 | 646 97% | 19k | $194k (exactly $193,606) | kagaya |
 | Lord Ambermaze | $14.99 | 131 91% | 3.9k | $59k (exactly $58,911) | Potata Company | |
 | Collateral Dungeon | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Techosaurus Studios | |
 | The Dungeon Paradox | $19.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) | Digital Software | |
 | Probability Dungeon | $9.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | NiNauk | |
 | Box Dungeons | $1.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | Mito Games | |
 | The Tower of Shadows | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Alien Création | |
 | RISING FOOL | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | AOSHIMAN |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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