Hunt the Wumpus
55
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Hunt the Wumpus is an Android app from Brant Thomsen in the Puzzle category, currently rated 4.6★ across 57 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Puzzle app, that means established niche player. 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
$109
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$55 – $511
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$55 – $1533
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$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 |
| ⚙ Puzzle complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$44K |
Total estimate
$125K
🛠 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 | Puzzle |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$109/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$70 – $279
12 months
$55 – $511
24 months
$55 – $1.5K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 34/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.0
Product Quality
3.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.64★ across 57 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 782d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (782d 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 = $1K-$3K. Portfolio play ($218/mo combined) commands premium.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (57 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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
- Hunt the Wumpus
- Developer
- Brant Thomsen
- Bundle ID
- com.thomsensolutions.wumpus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Puzzle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.thomsensolutions.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
- $189/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 growth57 ratings+58% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
📝 About this app
The Wumpus has been attacking your village at night, before escaping back into its cave. You have been chosen to go into its cave to hunt for it. Fortunately, you are not defenseless....
"Hunt the Wumpus" is a puzzle game where you use clues to figure out where the Wumpus is hiding in a randomly generated cave, while avoiding the large bats and slime pits. Guess correctly where the Wumpus is, and you can fire your magic arrow and win the game. Guess incorrectly, and the Wumpus may get you instead!… View full description on the official store →
"Hunt the Wumpus" is a puzzle game where you use clues to figure out where the Wumpus is hiding in a randomly generated cave, while avoiding the large bats and slime pits. Guess correctly where the Wumpus is, and you can fire your magic arrow and win the game. Guess incorrectly, and the Wumpus may get you instead!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 57 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hunt the Wumpus make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hunt the Wumpus earns approximately $109/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.
What apps are like Hunt the Wumpus?▴
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Who makes Hunt the Wumpus?▴
Hunt the Wumpus is published by Brant Thomsen 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 Hunt the Wumpus's BU Score?▴
Hunt the Wumpus has a BU Score of 55/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.