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Should I ship a Dog Choose Your Own Adventure game?
Choose Your Own Adventure + Dogs
Only 10 developers shipped a Dog Choose Your Own 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, Milfylicious - Chapter I, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×5.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.4k against a market of $480. 21 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
| Top 25% | $3.0k (exactly $2,998) |
| Top 5% | $161k (exactly $161,442) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 35% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
- Dogs
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 81% positive over 413 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Beat Banger 2023 · EA · $992k 
Big Farm Story 2021 · $703k 
The Red Lantern 2021 · $700k 
Furry Shades of Gay 2: A Shade Gayer 2021 · $221k 
Sex and the Furry Titty 2: Sins of the City 2022 · $212k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Beat Banger | · EA older | $9.99 | 3,311 93% | 99k | $992k (exactly $992,307) | BunFan Games LLC |
| | Big Farm Story | older | $19.99 | 1,172 78% | 35k | $703k (exactly $702,848) | Goodgame Studios |
| | The Red Lantern | older | $24.99 | 934 83% | 28k | $700k (exactly $700,220) | Timberline Studio |
| | Furry Shades of Gay 2: A Shade Gayer | older | $9.99 | 738 96% | 22k | $221k (exactly $221,179) | Furlough Games |
| | Sex and the Furry Titty 2: Sins of the City | older | $9.99 | 708 91% | 21k | $212k (exactly $212,188) | Furlough Games |
 | Furry Shades of Gay | older | $6.99 | 835 91% | 25k | $175k (exactly $175,100) | Furlough Games |
 | Milfylicious - Chapter I | $14.99 | 359 81% | 11k | $161k (exactly $161,442) | Maximus | |
 | Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite | older | $4.99 | 826 98% | 25k | $124k (exactly $123,652) | Denny Truong, Andy Schneider |
 | Furry Shades of Gay 3: Still Gayer | older | $9.99 | 403 95% | 12k | $121k (exactly $120,779) | Furlough Games |
 | Pet Shop Simulator | older | $14.99 | 231 68% | 6.9k | $104k (exactly $103,881) | Games Incubator |
 | Tchunk | $4.99 | 26 61% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | Velli Media | |
 | Sammy Jukes: Twin Lakes | $19.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $3.0k (exactly $2,998) | Wamill | |
 | Wantama☆Life | $24.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $1.5k (exactly $1,499) | CyberStep, Inc. | |
 | Murder Is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse | $5.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | HitherYon Games | |
 | Chick'n Mushroom Soup | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Team Sermath | |
 | Autumn with the Shiba Inu | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Quill Game Studios | |
 | Gyeonwoo's Love | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Moru Games | |
 | 靴下物語ー大門ジゲンの靴下店ー | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | KNIGHT_０（ナイトー） | |
 | おしかけケモミミついんず FURRY TWINS | $29.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | CyberStep, Inc., Rideon Works Co. Ltd, |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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