Buff Knight: Retro Runner RPG
77
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Buff Knight: Retro Runner RPG is an Android app from Buff Studio Co.,Ltd. in the Role Playing category, currently rated 4.5★ across 24,261 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a Role Playing app, that means healthy traction. 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$18.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$18.7K – $39.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$23.1K – $69.4K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
2 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
24,261 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$18.0K
Snapshots tracked
2
since Jun 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$255K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $190K – $345K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.2y at current MRR
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 |
| ⚙ 12.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$72K |
Total estimate
$255K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.3× build cost (break-even+)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 12.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Role Playing category multiple | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
155K
Daily active
62K
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 |
| 📅 12.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Role Playing D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
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
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-25 · 18 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 18 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$18.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$17.1K – $28.5K
12 months
$18.7K – $39.1K
24 months
$23.1K – $69.4K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
8.9
Revenue Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $12K - $27K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.46★ across 24,072 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 368d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (368d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $324K-$577K.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (24,261 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Buff Knight: Retro Runner RPG
- Developer
- Buff Studio Co.,Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.buffstudio.onthehero
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Role Playing
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.buffstudio.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $18.0K/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.
💰Pricing History$1.49 → $1.99 (+34%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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.
📝 About this app
⚔️ Die. Upgrade. Come back stronger!
Buff Knight is a retro pixel action RPG runner you can play offline, with no ads. Your knight charges forward on his own and fights every monster he bumps into. You tap to cast spells, drink potions, open treasure chests and strike monsters in the air. Every death sends you to the shop, and every upgrade carries you further toward the Red Dragon.
👑 THE STORY
Long ago, the Red Dragon stormed the Kingdom of Buff and stole its 10 treasures, and in the chaos the beautiful Princess vanished.… View full description on the official store →
Buff Knight is a retro pixel action RPG runner you can play offline, with no ads. Your knight charges forward on his own and fights every monster he bumps into. You tap to cast spells, drink potions, open treasure chests and strike monsters in the air. Every death sends you to the shop, and every upgrade carries you further toward the Red Dragon.
👑 THE STORY
Long ago, the Red Dragon stormed the Kingdom of Buff and stole its 10 treasures, and in the chaos the beautiful Princess vanished.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.4.1🔄 updated 2w ago📂 Role Playing💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-11
💲
Price ↑ $1.49 → $1.99 (+34%)
2026-11
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v1.104 → v1.4.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +189 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-06-01
2026-11-06
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-06-01
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Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-06-01
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Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-06-01
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Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-06-01
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Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-06-01
2026-11-06
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — buffstudio.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Buff Knight: Retro Runner RPG: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 24,261 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Buff Knight make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Buff Knight earns approximately $18K/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 Buff Knight profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $255K and monthly revenue $18K, Buff Knight looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Buff Knight have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.2M lifetime downloads, ~155K monthly active users, and ~62K 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 Buff Knight?▴
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What is Buff Knight built with?▴
Our heuristic places Buff Knight 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 Buff Knight still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 18 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Buff Knight sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 18× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Buff Knight last updated?▴
Buff Knight last shipped a new version on 2026-10-25 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Buff Knight?▴
Buff Knight is published by Buff Studio Co.,Ltd. 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 Buff Knight's BU Score?▴
Buff Knight has a BU Score of 77/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.