Idle Archeology Tycoon
50
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Idle Archeology Tycoon is an Android app from Brothers Apps And Games in the Simulation category, currently rated 3.9★ across 181 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Simulation 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
💡 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
3.9
Reviews
181 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$225K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $170K – $305K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.8y 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 |
| ⚙ Simulation complexity ×2.00 | +$59K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$65K |
| ⚙ 6.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$38K |
Total estimate
$225K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 26× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 6.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Simulation category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
26× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
17K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.9K
Daily active
570
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 |
| 📅 6.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Simulation D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% 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 |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2023-10-13 · 1091 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
| 📅 2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (181 ratings) + 6.4y 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)
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 peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.9
Product Quality
5.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
9.1
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.88★ across 181 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1084d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1084d 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
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:
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (181 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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
- Idle Archeology Tycoon
- Developer
- Brothers Apps And Games
- Bundle ID
- ru.brothersappsandgames.idlearheologytycoon
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Simulation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.aa2g1studios.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
- $1.99 - $25.99 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
Idle Archeology Tycoon
Would you like to have your own museum? And to find the bones, fossils, alien technologies fragments of civilization and evolution? Welcome to the new idle games. You will be tap dig master and digger-archaeologist.
You will build a research camp in different locations of the world and lead the excavations. Digging games have never been so fun and exciting. You digging blocks and find exhibits for the museum. Dig it!
Dino skeleton, statues and UFOs will bring you gold. Improve your team of archaeologists and find even more antiquities.… View full description on the official store →
Would you like to have your own museum? And to find the bones, fossils, alien technologies fragments of civilization and evolution? Welcome to the new idle games. You will be tap dig master and digger-archaeologist.
You will build a research camp in different locations of the world and lead the excavations. Digging games have never been so fun and exciting. You digging blocks and find exhibits for the museum. Dig it!
Dino skeleton, statues and UFOs will bring you gold. Improve your team of archaeologists and find even more antiquities.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.1🔄 updated 2y ago📂 Simulation💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.99 - $25.99 per item🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — aa2g1studios.org
- Mail provider
- Zoho Mail
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Zoho
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 Idle Archeology Tycoon: 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 medium confidence: 181 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Idle Archeology Tycoon make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Idle Archeology Tycoon 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 Idle Archeology Tycoon profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $225K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Idle Archeology Tycoon looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.8 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 Idle Archeology Tycoon have?▴
Estimated audience: ~17K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~570 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 Idle Archeology Tycoon?▴
Browse the full Simulation category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Idle Archeology Tycoon built with?▴
Our heuristic places Idle Archeology Tycoon 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 Idle Archeology Tycoon still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Idle Archeology Tycoon 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 Idle Archeology Tycoon last updated?▴
Idle Archeology Tycoon last shipped a new version on 2023-10-13 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Idle Archeology Tycoon?▴
Idle Archeology Tycoon is published by Brothers Apps And Games 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 Idle Archeology Tycoon's BU Score?▴
Idle Archeology Tycoon has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.