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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure Flight game?
Flight + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 9 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Flight 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, Mesoké, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.4k, ×3.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $300. Revenue is up 7375% on the market; 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,427) |
| Top 25% | $3.7k (exactly $3,748) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $10,791) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 7375% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Flight
- 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
- Flight, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $4.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 24,285 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Flight with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Quick-Time EventsFair
- + CatsFair
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + MiningPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + RTSPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
Avorion 2020 · $9.7M 
《蜀山：初章》买断版 2022 · $4.3M 
轮回修仙路 2023 · $1.5M 
Spirit Realm 2024 · EA · $752k 
The Witch of Fern Island 2024 · $525k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Avorion | older | $24.99 | 13,001 90% | 390k | $9.7M (exactly $9,746,850) | Boxelware |
| | 《蜀山：初章》买断版 | older | $24.99 | 5,772 74% | 173k | $4.3M (exactly $4,327,268) | 重楼工作室 |
| | 轮回修仙路 | older | $16.99 | 2,945 82% | 88k | $1.5M (exactly $1,501,066) | 烟水寒工作室 |
| | Spirit Realm | · EA older | $18.18 | 1,379 76% | 41k | $752k (exactly $752,107) | 深圳市灵境互娱科技有限公司 |
| | The Witch of Fern Island | older | $24.99 | 700 69% | 21k | $525k (exactly $524,790) | Enjoy Studio S.A. |
 | Earth Analog | older | $19.99 | 101 65% | 3.0k | $61k (exactly $60,570) | Funcraft Games |
 | SEX Airlines 🔞✈️ | older | $9.99 | 151 61% | 4.5k | $45k (exactly $45,255) | Play and Cum 💦 |
 | PixPhys | · EA older | $3.99 | 193 73% | 5.8k | $23k (exactly $23,102) | Red Starship |
 | Flying Tobacco Eggs | older | $39.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $16k (exactly $15,596) | Gamesforgames |
 | Mesoké | $11.99 | 30 90% | 900 | $11k (exactly $10,791) | Mystik'art | |
 | Don't Crash | $4.99 | 68 98% | 2.0k | $10k (exactly $10,180) | Override Studio | |
 | SKY LEGENDS - An Aeropostal Epic | $24.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $3.7k (exactly $3,748) | SUPER AC | |
 | Magical Runes | $0.99 | 100 88% | 3.0k | $3.0k (exactly $2,970) | ZERO5GAMES | |
 | Red Panda: The Quiet Path | $8.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $2.4k (exactly $2,427) | Uberbax-Gaming | |
 | Seeker 3 | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Sheer Studios | |
 | Two Rocket Ascent | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | HobakGrove | |
 | Bird Like | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | SoftPower | |
 | Moon Carrier | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | UNPREDICTABLE GAMES |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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