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Choose Your Own Adventure + Hacking
Only 11 developers shipped a Hacking 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, FEED THE AI, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.5 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $100k, ×211 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 24 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $450 (exactly $450) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $31k (exactly $31,487) |
| Top 5% | $100k (exactly $100,093) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 90% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Hacking
- 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
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 933 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Choose Your Own Adventure with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RhythmStrong odds
- + FMVFair
- + FlightFair
- + SportsFair
- + Word GameFair
- + MilitaryFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + IdlerFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + 3D FighterLong shot
- + NavalPoor odds
Comparable games
Watch Dogs®: Legion 2023 · $21M 
MINDHACK 2023 · EA · $277k 
Polda 7 2022 · $268k 
Yolo Space Hacker 2020 · $156k 
FEED THE AI 2026 · $100k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Watch Dogs®: Legion | older | $59.99 | 11,891 56% | 357k | $21M (exactly $21,400,233) | Ubisoft Toronto |
| | MINDHACK | · EA older | $12.99 | 712 93% | 21k | $277k (exactly $277,466) | VODKAdemo? |
| | Polda 7 | older | $17.99 | 496 92% | 15k | $268k (exactly $267,691) | Zima software |
| | Yolo Space Hacker | older | $24.99 | 208 95% | 6.2k | $156k (exactly $155,938) | BKNLab |
| | FEED THE AI | $5.99 | 557 90% | 17k | $100k (exactly $100,093) | Weird Kid Games | |
 | Hacked: The Streamer | $8.49 | 268 73% | 8.0k | $68k (exactly $68,260) | Button Interactive, NAISU | |
 | Web Host Simulator | · EA | $24.99 | 42 26% | 1.3k | $31k (exactly $31,487) | Chibum |
 | Chaos Chain | · EA older | $14.99 | 68 92% | 2.0k | $31k (exactly $30,580) | Corrosive Studios LLC |
 | Hello Stranger | $9.99 | 31 80% | 930 | $9.3k (exactly $9,291) | PRM Games | |
 | Internet Court | older | $6.99 | 33 78% | 990 | $6.9k (exactly $6,920) | Oh, a Rock! Studios |
 | FutaPunk 🌚 | $5.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $4.0k (exactly $3,953) | TheBigO Games | |
 | Autumn with the Shiba Inu | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Quill Game Studios | |
 | NETBREAK | $6.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Splice | |
 | > Terminal | $5.00 | 3 100% | 90 | $450 (exactly $450) | Terminal CLS LLC | |
 | Zly.ii: The Hacked Station | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Simon Says: Play! | |
 | THE LAST LOGIN | $12.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | IS-TL |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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