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Should I ship a Military Choose Your Own Adventure game?
Choose Your Own Adventure + Military
Of 23 developers who shipped a Military Choose Your Own Adventure game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $120. Revenue is up 135% on the market; 24 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $9.7k (exactly $9,684) |
| Top 5% | $249k (exactly $249,444) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 23 |
| Released games | 74 |
| Announced | 24 |
| 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 135% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
- Military
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Visual Novel, Choices Matter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $18.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, 2D, Anime
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $18.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,599 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 17 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Choose Your Own Adventure with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Score AttackFair
- + IdlerFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + 3D FighterLong shot
- + NavalPoor odds
- + Time ManipulationPoor odds
Comparable games
Muv-Luv Alternative 2018 · $4.1M 
Rule the Waves 3 2023 · $1.0M 
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles 2024 · EA · $656k 
Finnish Army Simulator 2023 · EA · $450k 
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog 2025 · $379k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Muv-Luv Alternative | older | $39.99 | 3,447 95% | 103k | $4.1M (exactly $4,135,366) | aNCHOR Inc. |
| | Rule the Waves 3 | older | $39.99 | 855 87% | 26k | $1.0M (exactly $1,025,744) | Naval Warfare Simulations |
| | Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles | · EA older | $19.99 | 1,094 74% | 33k | $656k (exactly $656,072) | Mauris, Tech-5 UG |
| | Finnish Army Simulator | · EA older | $29.99 | 500 88% | 15k | $450k (exactly $449,850) | Please Be Patient |
| | Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog | $14.99 | 843 90% | 25k | $379k (exactly $379,097) | Space Colony Studios | |
 | Rise of Piracy | · EA | $15.99 | 520 77% | 16k | $249k (exactly $249,444) | IrishJohnGames |
 | Xenus 2. White gold. | older | $14.99 | 268 76% | 8.0k | $121k (exactly $120,520) | Deep Shadows |
 | Phantom PHANTOM OF INFERNO NITRO ARCHIVE | $29.99 | 108 94% | 3.2k | $97k (exactly $97,168) | NITRO PLUS, NITRO ORIGIN | |
 | Fog of War: Book One | older | $11.99 | 205 77% | 6.2k | $74k (exactly $73,738) | Story Machine Studios |
 | Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships | older | $7.99 | 245 76% | 7.4k | $59k (exactly $58,726) | Akella |
 | Wings of Empire | · EA | $14.99 | 49 87% | 1.5k | $22k (exactly $22,035) | Droid Productions |
 | Cerulean Invasion | $18.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $12k (exactly $11,964) | Vincere Studio | |
 | Fog of War: Book Two | · EA | $16.99 | 19 84% | 570 | $9.7k (exactly $9,684) | Story Machine Studios |
 | World War II Armored Recon | $8.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Hosted Games | |
 | Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION | $6.99 | 14 42% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Choice of Games | |
 | Alexandria IV | $11.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | J. M. Beraldo, Time Galleon | |
 | Story of the Olivia | $12.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) | Uğur ÇELİK |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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