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Should I ship a Music Choose Your Own Adventure game?
Choose Your Own Adventure + Music
Only 12 developers shipped a Music 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, KAMITSUBAKI CITY REGENERATE, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.8k against a market of $480. 7 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.8k (exactly $2,753) |
| Top 25% | $105k (exactly $104,947) |
| Top 5% | $519k (exactly $518,552) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Music
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 1,363 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 7 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical 2023 · $2.3M 
Goodbye Volcano High 2023 · $1.5M 
KAMITSUBAKI CITY REGENERATE 2025 · $519k 
OBSCURA 2024 · EA · $204k 
Rock Star Life Simulator 2025 · $187k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical | older | $29.99 | 2,570 92% | 77k | $2.3M (exactly $2,312,229) | Summerfall Studios |
| | Goodbye Volcano High | older | $29.99 | 1,676 89% | 50k | $1.5M (exactly $1,507,897) | KO_OP |
| | KAMITSUBAKI CITY REGENERATE | $34.99 | 494 93% | 15k | $519k (exactly $518,552) | KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO, orange | |
| | OBSCURA | · EA older | $14.99 | 453 99% | 14k | $204k (exactly $203,714) | Rotten Raccoons |
| | Rock Star Life Simulator | $12.49 | 498 85% | 15k | $187k (exactly $186,601) | HOGO Games | |
 | A YEAR OF SPRINGS | older | $4.99 | 915 98% | 27k | $137k (exactly $136,976) | npckc |
 | Once Upon a Jester | older | $14.99 | 261 100% | 7.8k | $117k (exactly $117,372) | Bonte Avond |
 | K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut | $19.99 | 175 53% | 5.3k | $105k (exactly $104,947) | Wisageni Studio | |
 | MUSICUS! | older | $44.99 | 73 94% | 2.2k | $99k (exactly $98,528) | OVERDRIVE |
 | Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure | older | $4.99 | 314 81% | 9.4k | $47k (exactly $47,006) | COWCAT |
 | Rock the Rim | $8.99 | 129 70% | 3.9k | $35k (exactly $34,791) | RedWhite & Waifuz | |
 | The Dreamwalkers | $8.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $5.7k (exactly $5,664) | Nightbloomer Studio | |
 | My Virtual Friend | $3.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $2.8k (exactly $2,753) | BiteMe Games | |
 | Nude Star: Kawaii Strip Show — Backstage Secrets Revealed | $9.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | Games For Pleasure | |
 | Cardamom : A Musical Visual Novel | $12.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) | Box of Black Spiders | |
 | Wrath of Mynah | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | BluWind, sharkekei, mrwalrusthegiraffe,… (BluWind, sharkekei, mrwalrusthegiraffe, axi, OMI, CardCaph, Kacper Cieśluk, Janaeither, Javier89javi) | |
 | AnderKant | $0.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | KlankeKlanke |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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