How much does Dead Man Walking make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Dead Man Walking 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 Dead Man Walking profitable?

With estimated build cost $260K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Dead Man Walking looks slow ROI — payback period is around 4.3 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Dead Man Walking have?

Estimated audience: ~24K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~450 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 Dead Man Walking?

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What is Dead Man Walking built with?

Our heuristic places Dead Man Walking 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 Dead Man Walking still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Dead Man Walking sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $175K). Calculated as 26× 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 Dead Man Walking last updated?

Dead Man Walking last shipped a new version on 2017-06-02 — more than 9 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Dead Man Walking?

Dead Man Walking is published by BlockGames 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 Dead Man Walking's BU Score?

Dead Man Walking has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.

Dead Man Walking

Quality Score

Solid

Dead Man Walking

Name: Dead Man Walking — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Dead Man Walking revenue, Dead Man Walking app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Action revenue, Android app revenue

by BlockGames

Medium confidence

4.0 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Dead Man Walking is an Android app from BlockGames in the Action category, currently rated 4.0★ across 235 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Action 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

$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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.0

Reviews

235 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Sep 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$260K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $195K – $350K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~4.3y 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
⚙ Action complexity ×2.20	+$71K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$71K
⚙ 9.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$56K

Total estimate $260K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$125K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 26× 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
📅 9.4y proven track record	+20%
🏷 Action category multiple	-15%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 26× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

24K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

1.3K

Daily active

450

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

📲 Action engagement	~150 installs / rating
📅 9.4y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Action D30 retention	10%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.35

DAU / MAU 35% 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	Action
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

95%

Last shipped 2017-06-02 · 3402 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

📅 9y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
👥 Small user base (235 ratings) + 9.4y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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 · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.3

Product Quality

5.6

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

4.0

Defensibility

9.8

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 235 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3398d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3398d 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 = $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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Mature app (9y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.0★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (235 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Dead Man Walking
Developer: BlockGames
Bundle ID: org.blockgames.deadmanwalking
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Action
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: blockgames.org
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: $0.99 - $99.99 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.

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Full revenue analysis

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