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Level Editor + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 8 developers shipped a Level Editor 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, Suck Up!, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×6.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $600 against a market of $630. 25 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $36k (exactly $36,189) |
| Top 5% | $104k (exactly $104,488) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 down 55% on the market, supply as many developers as 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.
- Level Editor
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Level Editor, 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 2,649 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. 25 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Level Editor with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Multiple EndingsFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + Time AttackFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + AutomationLong shot
- + TransportationPoor odds
- + TrainsPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + City BuilderPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
Comparable games
Legends of Eisenwald 2015 · $836k 
Super Dungeon Maker 2023 · $233k 
Quest Master 2024 · EA · $212k 
Suck Up! 2025 · $104k 
Handyman Corporation 2023 · $49k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Legends of Eisenwald | older | $19.99 | 1,394 76% | 42k | $836k (exactly $835,982) | Aterdux Entertainment |
| | Super Dungeon Maker | older | $19.99 | 388 82% | 12k | $233k (exactly $232,684) | FIRECHICK |
| | Quest Master | · EA older | $19.99 | 354 98% | 11k | $212k (exactly $212,294) | Apogee Entertainment, Julian Creutz, Sk… (Apogee Entertainment, Julian Creutz, Skydevilpalm) |
| | Suck Up! | $16.99 | 205 62% | 6.2k | $104k (exactly $104,488) | Proxima | |
| | Handyman Corporation | older | $11.99 | 136 47% | 4.1k | $49k (exactly $48,919) | Potato Games |
 | BMX Bastards | · EA | $16.99 | 71 85% | 2.1k | $36k (exactly $36,189) | CSF Games Studio |
 | RPG Stories | · EA older | $29.99 | 36 77% | 1.1k | $32k (exactly $32,389) | Brave Alice Games |
 | Marble Run | older | $7.99 | 32 59% | 960 | $7.7k (exactly $7,670) | PS Games |
 | Super Dungeon Designer | · EA older | $14.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $6.7k (exactly $6,746) | Squish Studios LLC |
 | Sci-fi builder | older | $9.99 | 18 50% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Games For Pleasure |
 | AI Asylum | $6.99 | 11 36% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | River Dynamics | |
 | Backrooms Game Creator | · EA | $9.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Outlaw Games |
 | Peekablock | · EA | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Goose Gang Games |
 | River of Time Yarn | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Little Studio | |
 | Card World | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Huawen | |
 | Game of Mods | · EA | $5.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Arkavo LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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