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Should I ship a Minigames Choose Your Own Adventure game?
Choose Your Own Adventure + Minigames
Only 10 developers shipped a Minigames 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, I Just Want to be Single!! Season One, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×4.5 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $530; 1 in 20 cleared $110k, ×983 the market median. Revenue is up 85% on the market; 17 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $525 (exactly $525) |
|---|---|
| Median | $540 (exactly $540) |
| Top 25% | $31k (exactly $31,468) |
| Top 5% | $117k (exactly $116,922) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 19%, 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
- Minigames
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure, Minigames
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 505 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $530. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Choose Your Own Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
McPixel 3 2022 · $359k 
Attentat 1942 2017 · $148k 
I Just Want to be Single!! Season One 2025 · EA · $117k 
To Trust an Incubus 2018 · $91k 
Faulty Apprentice 2019 · $85k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | McPixel 3 | older | $9.99 | 1,199 96% | 36k | $359k (exactly $359,340) | Sos Sosowski |
| | Attentat 1942 | older | $10.99 | 448 92% | 13k | $148k (exactly $147,706) | Charles Games |
| | I Just Want to be Single!! Season One | · EA | $14.99 | 260 75% | 7.8k | $117k (exactly $116,922) | m., Tsundere Studio |
| | To Trust an Incubus | older | $19.99 | 152 84% | 4.6k | $91k (exactly $91,154) | Y Press Games |
| | Faulty Apprentice | older | $19.99 | 141 76% | 4.2k | $85k (exactly $84,558) | AGL studios |
 | Touhou Gensokyo Odyssey | older | $6.99 | 357 94% | 11k | $75k (exactly $74,863) | Kronington |
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 | C14 Dating | older | $19.99 | 58 93% | 1.7k | $35k (exactly $34,783) | Winter Wolves |
 | Lust Night💋 | $9.99 | 105 72% | 3.2k | $31k (exactly $31,468) | Play and Cum 💦 | |
 | Natural Unintelligence: Zueirama 2 | · EA | $7.99 | 28 78% | 840 | $6.7k (exactly $6,712) | Memes Games |
 | Egg Hunter | $17.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $540 (exactly $540) | Lagomorph Rampant Studios | |
 | Unstimulated Simulator | $0.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $535 (exactly $535) | Shotsy Enterprise | |
 | Call the Tune | $3.50 | 5 100% | 150 | $525 (exactly $525) | St☆rlet | |
 | Ferdinand Fox tries Ecoterrorism | $14.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Screenshakes | |
 | CLEANING.INC | $2.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Alex Falx | |
 | Quodan: Treachery on the Arheid | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | AnonymousTurtle Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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