41
Quality Score
Emerging
Operation: Dessert Storm
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Operation: Dessert Storm is an Android app from Dessert Storm in the Role Playing category, currently rated 2.6★ across 1,067 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 41: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Role Playing app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$235K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $175K – $315K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙Role Playing complexity ×2.30 | +$65K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$63K |
| ⚙8.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$53K |
Total estimate$235K
👥 Estimated audience size
97K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
10K
Daily active
4.0K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲Role Playing engagement | ~130 installs / rating |
| 📅8.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Role Playing D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU40% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷Category context | Role Playing |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
72%
Last shipped 2025-01-15 · 493 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅1y 4mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 33/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Product Quality
4.6
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.2
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.56★ across 1,067 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 491d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (491d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Low install base (1,067 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.3.19🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Role Playing💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📝 About this app
Welcome to Operation: Dessert Storm!
The game takes place in the fictional world of Toontown, a wacky town, inhabited by cartoon characters called Toons. They are on a mission to defeat the evil robot Cogs who are planning to take over Toontown, by turning Toon buildings into nasty Cog buildings. Fortunately, the Cogs cannot take a joke - Toons can easily defeat them with Gags, but these pesky Cogs will not let themselves be destroyed.
Operation: Dessert Storm is a brand new take on the wacky town called Toontown.… View full description on the official store →
The game takes place in the fictional world of Toontown, a wacky town, inhabited by cartoon characters called Toons. They are on a mission to defeat the evil robot Cogs who are planning to take over Toontown, by turning Toon buildings into nasty Cog buildings. Fortunately, the Cogs cannot take a joke - Toons can easily defeat them with Gags, but these pesky Cogs will not let themselves be destroyed.
Operation: Dessert Storm is a brand new take on the wacky town called Toontown.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — opdessertstorm.com
- Tech stack
- Brevo (formerly Sendinblue)
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Operation: Dessert Storm
- Developer
- Dessert Storm
- Bundle ID
- com.opdessertstorm.odstest
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Role Playing
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- opdessertstorm.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $390/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth1,067 ratings+39% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Operation: Dessert Storm: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Operation make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Operation earns approximately $390/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Operation profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $235K and monthly revenue $390, Operation looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Operation have?▾
Estimated audience: ~97K lifetime downloads, ~10K monthly active users, and ~4K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Operation?▾
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What is Operation built with?▾
Our heuristic places Operation on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Operation still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (72% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Operation last updated?▾
Operation last shipped a new version on 2025-01-15 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Operation?▾
Operation is published by Dessert Storm on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Operation's BU Score?▾
Operation has a BU Score of 41/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.