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Hunting + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 9 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Hunting 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, Kalahari’s End, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×7.0 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 $1.5k against a market of $630. 28 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $178 (exactly $178) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) |
| Top 25% | $1.9k (exactly $1,884) |
| Top 5% | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 3710% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hunting
- 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
- Hunting, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.02.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 2,207 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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- + BuildingPoor odds
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Comparable games
The Red Lantern 2021 · $700k 
Slow living with Princess 2023 · $348k 
Arctic Anxiety 2020 · EA · $26k 
e-River Cabin Journal 2016 · $16k 
Survive or Thrive 2020 · $14k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Red Lantern | older | $24.99 | 934 83% | 28k | $700k (exactly $700,220) | Timberline Studio |
| | Slow living with Princess | older | $19.99 | 580 87% | 17k | $348k (exactly $347,826) | KADOKAWA, TSUKURITE. |
| | Arctic Anxiety | · EA older | $2.99 | 285 55% | 8.6k | $26k (exactly $25,565) | Arctic Studio |
| | e-River Cabin Journal | older | $9.99 | 54 50% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $16,184) | Wilderness Journal Games |
| | Survive or Thrive | older | $1.99 | 233 98% | 7.0k | $14k (exactly $13,910) | Randumb Studios |
 | The Hermit Chronicles | older | $9.99 | 39 64% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | WinterTent Studio |
 | Wildstrive | · EA older | $7.99 | 34 44% | 1.0k | $8.2k (exactly $8,150) | MonsterGaze |
 | Lost Love Island | older | $7.99 | 22 59% | 660 | $5.3k (exactly $5,273) | OneCoin |
 | 4 Kingdoms Supremacy | · EA older | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | PiggyNose Games |
 | Kalahari’s End | · EA | $14.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Owlfig Games |
 | Birds Hunter | · EA | $17.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $3.8k (exactly $3,778) | Bassel Laoun |
 | Dino running from a FURRY: GAMESFORFARM | $2.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $1.9k (exactly $1,884) | Piece Of Voxel, Gamesforfarm | |
 | Story of the Olivia | $12.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) | Uğur ÇELİK | |
 | Ashes of Ambition | $6.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) | HiddenGem Studio | |
 | Phantom the Huntress | $6.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Hoffnung Haydn | |
 | Whispers of the Dead | $0.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | Agoge Studios | |
 | Bulletproof Tank Adventure | $0.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | HAPPYTECH | |
 | Sef Saga | · EA | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Sef |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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