The Arcana: A Mystic Romance
75
Quality Score
Strong
The Arcana: A Mystic Romance
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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The Arcana: A Mystic Romance is an Android app from Dorian.live in the Simulation category, currently rated 4.5★ across 93,809 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Simulation 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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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
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$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 |
| ⚙Simulation complexity ×2.00 | +$50K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$55K |
Total estimate$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $40K · 15× MRR multiple
💸~0.2× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷Simulation category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
13.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.9M
Daily active
585K
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
| 📲Simulation engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 🔁Simulation D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU30% 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 | Simulation |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.5
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 93,809 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 192d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (93,809 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 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
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📝 About this app
**Currently only available in English**
Welcome to The Arcana. You’re about to enter the interactive world of Vesuvia, the most captivating visual novel full of mystery, love, and romance.
In merely seconds, you’ll enter your own immersive, inclusive, otome inspired love story and visual novel.
In this captivating romance story you won’t be able to put down, you’re the main character and love interest. Choose your preferred pronouns, make your own choices and romance to your heart’s desire! The Arcana is LGBTQ+ friendly.
THE ARCANA STORY… View full description on the official store →
Welcome to The Arcana. You’re about to enter the interactive world of Vesuvia, the most captivating visual novel full of mystery, love, and romance.
In merely seconds, you’ll enter your own immersive, inclusive, otome inspired love story and visual novel.
In this captivating romance story you won’t be able to put down, you’re the main character and love interest. Choose your preferred pronouns, make your own choices and romance to your heart’s desire! The Arcana is LGBTQ+ friendly.
THE ARCANA STORY… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- The Arcana: A Mystic Romance
- Developer
- Dorian.live
- Bundle ID
- com.nixhydragames.thearcana
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Simulation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $2.1K/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.
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.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for The Arcana: A Mystic Romance: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 93,809 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does The Arcana make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Arcana earns approximately $2.1K/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 The Arcana profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $2.1K, The Arcana 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 The Arcana have?▴
Estimated audience: ~13.0M lifetime downloads, ~1.9M monthly active users, and ~585K 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 The Arcana?▴
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What is The Arcana built with?▴
Our heuristic places The Arcana 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.
How much would The Arcana sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $30K (marketplace range $25K – $40K). Calculated as 15× 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.
Who makes The Arcana?▴
The Arcana is published by Dorian.live 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 The Arcana's BU Score?▴
The Arcana has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.