Defenders of the Realm
39
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Defenders of the Realm is an Android app from PLAYTOUCH in the Strategy category, currently rated 3.2★ across 33 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 39: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Strategy 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.
💰 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
💡 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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
3.2
Reviews
33 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since Aug 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$240K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $180K – $325K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.0y 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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Strategy complexity ×2.10 | +$65K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$68K |
| ⚙ 7.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$46K |
Total estimate
$240K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 24× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 📅 7.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Strategy category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
24× MRR
🛠 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 | Strategy |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
82%
Last shipped 2024-11-18 · 687 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
| 📅 1y 10mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥 Small user base (33 ratings) + 7.8y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.3
Product Quality
2.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
9.4
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.17★ across 33 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 682d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (682d 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 = $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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (33 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
- Defenders of the Realm
- Developer
- PLAYTOUCH
- Bundle ID
- net.playtouch.defendersoftherealmaew
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Strategy
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- playtouch.net
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $2.99 per item
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.
📝 About this app
In DEFENDER OF THE REALM : AN EPIC WAR you must command and order your army of knights to defend your kingdom from monsters' attacks.
Your ennemy is rising an army with hordes of powerfull creatures and magic spells, and just started to kill your people.
Forge your defenses, build new units, battle against your foes to remain the king and save your realm from the deadly clash in this dark age.
Your ennemy is rising an army with hordes of powerfull creatures and magic spells, and just started to kill your people.
Forge your defenses, build new units, battle against your foes to remain the king and save your realm from the deadly clash in this dark age.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v7🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Strategy💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $2.99 per item🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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Why low confidence: only 33 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Defenders of the Realm make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Defenders of the Realm earns approximately $5.0K/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 Defenders of the Realm profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $240K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Defenders of the Realm looks slow ROI — payback period is around 4.0 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Defenders of the Realm?▴
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What is Defenders of the Realm built with?▴
Our heuristic places Defenders of the Realm 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 Defenders of the Realm still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (82% 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.
How much would Defenders of the Realm sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $150K). Calculated as 24× 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 Defenders of the Realm last updated?▴
Defenders of the Realm last shipped a new version on 2024-11-18 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Defenders of the Realm?▴
Defenders of the Realm is published by PLAYTOUCH 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 Defenders of the Realm's BU Score?▴
Defenders of the Realm has a BU Score of 39/100 (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.