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Auto Battler + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 8 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Auto Battler 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 Bazaar, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.3k, ×11 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $3.6k; 1 in 20 cleared $8.9M, ×18851 the market median. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $3.5k (exactly $3,506) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.3k (exactly $5,280) |
| Top 25% | $459k (exactly $458,816) |
| Top 5% | $9.0M (exactly $8,954,121) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 down 10% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Auto Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Auto Battler, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 16,070 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.6k. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Auto Battler with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + CyberpunkFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + CatsFair
- + ArcadeFair
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Comparable games
The Bazaar 2025 · $9.0M 
Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator 2026 · EA · $459k 
Hole Dweller 2024 · $62k 
Stash: A Card Looter 2025 · $56k 
Roots of Harmony 2024 · $5.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Bazaar | $19.99 | 14,931 70% | 448k | $9.0M (exactly $8,954,121) | Tempo | |
| | Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator | · EA | $24.99 | 612 81% | 18k | $459k (exactly $458,816) | Contec Games |
| | Hole Dweller | older | $7.99 | 260 96% | 7.8k | $62k (exactly $62,322) | Thigh High Games |
| | Stash: A Card Looter | $9.99 | 186 79% | 5.6k | $56k (exactly $55,744) | WheeGaming | |
| | Roots of Harmony | $8.00 | 22 100% | 660 | $5.3k (exactly $5,280) | Guillaume Beaumel | |
 | Bastionforge | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Ballardo: Roguelike Billiards | · EA | $8.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $3.5k (exactly $3,506) | Nue Games |
 | Supernova Tactics | older | $6.99 | 14 57% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Peepod Inc. |
 | HeroInc | · EA | $8.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Nue Games |
 | Idle Keep | $4.25 | 5 60% | 150 | $638 (exactly $638) | PixelBitGames | |
 | Embermarch | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ser Podrik Pomboke |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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