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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure 6DOF game?
6DOF + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 7 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure 6DOF game in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Human Within, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×5.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $630 against a market of $630. 23 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $629 (exactly $629) |
| Top 25% | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,394) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 47 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue down 70% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 6DOF
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 2,532 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 23 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
6DOF with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RoguelikeFair
- + TacticalFair
- + RobotsFair
- + WarFair
- + Dark FantasyFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + RhythmPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | OverDrift Festival | older | $9.99 | 1,103 79% | 33k | $331k (exactly $330,569) | OverDrift Crew |
| | Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu | older | $19.99 | 362 80% | 11k | $217k (exactly $217,091) | Gemdrops, Inc. |
| | Fast Food Manager | older | $14.99 | 238 69% | 7.1k | $107k (exactly $107,029) | Cyber Eye |
| | Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Fumoto Campsite | older | $19.99 | 151 89% | 4.5k | $91k (exactly $90,555) | Gemdrops, Inc. |
| | Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships | older | $7.99 | 245 76% | 7.4k | $59k (exactly $58,726) | Akella |
 | Sea Dogs | older | $11.99 | 162 75% | 4.9k | $58k (exactly $58,271) | Akella |
 | Aquarelle | older | $59.99 | 19 68% | 570 | $34k (exactly $34,194) | Andreev Worlds |
 | Ragdoll: Fall Simulator | older | $9.99 | 82 76% | 2.5k | $25k (exactly $24,575) | Andreev Worlds, Gamesforfarm |
 | ШХД: ЛЕТО / IT'S SUMMER | older | $9.99 | 57 68% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,083) | ИЛЬЯМАЗО, GRüN STUDIO |
 | Biolum | older | $3.99 | 113 81% | 3.4k | $14k (exactly $13,526) | IKO, Reynard Films, Prefrontal Cortex |
 | Human Within | $19.99 | 19 52% | 570 | $11k (exactly $11,394) | Signal Space Lab, Actrio Studio | |
 | Ragdoll Playground | $9.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Paphnutius | |
 | SKY LEGENDS - An Aeropostal Epic | $24.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $3.7k (exactly $3,748) | SUPER AC | |
 | SUMMER WITH MY WIFE | $6.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Lust Zone Studio | |
 | Fun Road | $2.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | RMIT | |
 | The Passengers | $4.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Couzin Films, Les Produits Frais | |
 | Normile | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | SomeBadScripter |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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