Cube World

Picroma · 2019 · $19.99 · Adventure · deal grade B

• Estimated net residual revenue: $1.2k to $1.9k per month
• Opportunity: $3.3k per month at x2.10 dormancy
• Estimated lifetime owners: 394.7k
• 36%% positive across 18722 reviews · 14.5 reviews/month

Why it's flagged

• No developer announcement on record, ever
• Studio inactive: no public activity across 1 tracked titles
• Last build shipped 7.0 years ago
• 47% of reviews come from key activations (excluded from revenue estimates)
• Store page localized in only 1 language(s)

Analyst notes (AI-assisted)

Cube World is a voxel-based action-adventure RPG with procedural world generation and class-based progression.

Cube World has generated $1.7M lifetime revenue from 395K units sold, yet sits dormant with only $1.5K–$1.9K monthly residual income and virtually no developer activity since 2019 launch. The game retains a small engaged core (125+ hour players, 36% positive reviews despite harsh sentiment around development pace) and carries no licensed IP, making it a clean acquisition target for a publisher willing to stabilize, polish, and relaunch. Mainstream appeal remains limited, but the voxel-adventure category and procedural-generation tech hold catalog value. Most realistic play: acquisition.

• Risk: Codebase has not been touched in 83+ months; modernization for current engine versions and platform support will require substantial engineering investment.
• Risk: Voxel-adventure space is crowded; Cube World's identity was diluted by a controversial 2019 update that introduced region-locked loot, angering the community and fragmenting goodwill.
• Risk: Studio status is listed as inactive with only one title in catalog; IP and code ownership clarity must be verified before acquisition.

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