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Should I ship a WWI Adventure game?
Adventure + World War I
Only 17 developers shipped a WWI Adventure 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, The Lightkeeper, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $9.3k, ×15 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $2.6k; 1 in 20 cleared $250k, ×413 the market median. Revenue is up 450% on the market; 26 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.5k (exactly $2,518) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.3k (exactly $9,329) |
| Top 25% | $27k (exactly $27,048) |
| Top 5% | $259k (exactly $259,116) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 55 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 up 450% on the market, supply 10% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Adventure
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- World War I
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Adventure; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Exploration, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, 3D, Dark
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 2,865 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.6k. 8 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 26 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Adventure with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SamuraiFair
- + FMVFair
- + PinballFair
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + Mini GolfFair
- + SportsFair
- + GolfFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Time AttackFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
Comparable games
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ 2014 · $11M 
Ad Infinitum 2023 · $1.2M 
CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut 2024 · $1.2M 
11-11 Memories Retold 2018 · $602k 
The Lightkeeper 2025 · $259k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ | older | $14.99 | 24,468 95% | 734k | $11M (exactly $11,003,260) | Ubisoft Montpellier |
| | Ad Infinitum | older | $39.99 | 1,033 76% | 31k | $1.2M (exactly $1,239,290) | Hekate |
| | CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut | older | $19.99 | 1,998 90% | 60k | $1.2M (exactly $1,198,201) | Jordan Mochi, Catchweight Studio |
| | 11-11 Memories Retold | older | $29.99 | 669 89% | 20k | $602k (exactly $601,899) | Aardman Animations, Digixart |
| | The Lightkeeper | $7.99 | 1,081 81% | 32k | $259k (exactly $259,116) | Darkphobia Games | |
 | The Caribou Trail | $12.99 | 636 90% | 19k | $248k (exactly $247,849) | Unreliable Narrators, Manavoid Entertai… (Unreliable Narrators, Manavoid Entertainment) | |
 | Valiant Hearts: Coming Home | older | $14.99 | 529 62% | 16k | $238k (exactly $237,891) | Ubisoft Da Nang, Ubisoft Montpellier |
 | Changeling Tale | older | $19.99 | 218 98% | 6.5k | $131k (exactly $130,735) | Helmet Fox |
 | Under: Depths of Fear | older | $9.99 | 253 66% | 7.6k | $76k (exactly $75,824) | Globiss Interactive |
 | The Last Express Gold Edition | older | $6.99 | 332 79% | 10k | $70k (exactly $69,620) | Dotemu |
 | Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love | $29.99 | 76 92% | 2.3k | $68k (exactly $68,377) | ASa Project | |
 | Trench Face | $2.99 | 717 93% | 22k | $64k (exactly $64,315) | Pulse Blue | |
 | The Amusement | $21.99 | 41 80% | 1.2k | $27k (exactly $27,048) | Curvature Games, ARTE France | |
 | Hello Girl | $6.99 | 94 97% | 2.8k | $20k (exactly $19,712) | Imo Team | |
 | Miss Peacock | $9.99 | 33 96% | 990 | $9.9k (exactly $9,890) | Otter Club | |
 | Trenches VR | $14.99 | 21 66% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | Steelkrill Studio | |
 | Shellshock | $2.99 | 104 89% | 3.1k | $9.3k (exactly $9,329) | Man the Barricades Ltd | |
 | Little Lighthouse of Horror | $2.99 | 62 85% | 1.9k | $5.6k (exactly $5,561) | Codiwans |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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