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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure Automation game?
Automation + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 7 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Automation 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, Meco Rocket Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $150 against a market of $630. 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,544) |
| Top 5% | $22k (exactly $22,360) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 26%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Automation
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Automation, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 1,892 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Automation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + Female ProtagonistStrong odds
- + Open World Survival CraftFair
- + HorrorFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + Class-BasedFair
- + MiningFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + FishingFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
Comparable games
Regular Human Workshop 2022 · $360k 
PRODUCER 2021 2022 · $49k 
PixPhys 2021 · EA · $23k 
Meco Rocket Simulator 2025 · EA · $22k 
Droneboi: Conquest 2022 · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Regular Human Workshop | older | $9.99 | 1,201 89% | 36k | $360k (exactly $359,940) | Dead Joker |
| | PRODUCER 2021 | older | $9.99 | 164 100% | 4.9k | $49k (exactly $49,151) | Stuffed Wombat, ThorHighHeels |
| | PixPhys | · EA older | $3.99 | 193 73% | 5.8k | $23k (exactly $23,102) | Red Starship |
| | Meco Rocket Simulator | · EA | $49.69 | 15 80% | 450 | $22k (exactly $22,360) | Loren Aerospace |
| | Droneboi: Conquest | older | $8.99 | 42 73% | 1.3k | $11k (exactly $11,327) | Rizen Planet Studios |
 | Taxi Simulator | · EA older | $0.99 | 86 43% | 2.6k | $2.6k (exactly $2,554) | Whoisthis |
 | Hardwork Simulator | older | $1.99 | 36 94% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,149) | Mandinga |
 | Logistics Simulator | · EA older | $0.99 | 63 30% | 1.9k | $1.9k (exactly $1,871) | Whoisthis |
 | MEMOLOGY: War of Memes | $0.99 | 52 76% | 1.6k | $1.5k (exactly $1,544) | Piece Of Voxel, Gamesforfarm, hannibaln… (Piece Of Voxel, Gamesforfarm, hannibalnotdead) | |
 | BzzzController | older | $0.99 | 40 87% | 1.2k | $1.2k (exactly $1,188) | Cold-Dark Software™ |
 | Enclaved | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Digital Platforms Co. | |
 | ERAIASON | · EA | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Christian Hahm |
 | GastroNomicon | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | TH3 NΔKOMΔ PROTOCOL |
 | Algorithmically | $12.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Pipera Games | |
 | AI and You | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Marcus |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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