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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure Parkour game?
Parkour + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 10 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Parkour 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, Reach, 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, ×4.3 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 $1.7k against a market of $630. 17 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) |
| Top 25% | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) |
| Top 5% | $220k (exactly $219,527) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 17 |
| 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 60% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Parkour
- 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
- Parkour, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 83% positive over 769 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerLong shot
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SkateboardingPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CatsPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
Comparable games
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey 2018 · $310M 
Reach 2025 · $220k 
BLACKSHARD 2025 · $194k 
CROW 2025 · $8.1k 
Area 86 2020 · $6.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Assassin's Creed® Odyssey | older | $59.99 | 172,149 89% | 5.2M | $310M (exactly $309,816,555) | Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubiso… (Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Bucharest, Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Kiev, Ubisoft Shanghai) |
| | Reach | $29.99 | 244 66% | 7.3k | $220k (exactly $219,527) | nDreams Elevation | |
| | BLACKSHARD | $14.99 | 432 91% | 13k | $194k (exactly $194,270) | Redlock Studio, Enclave | |
| | CROW | $9.99 | 27 85% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Uniday Studio | |
| | Area 86 | older | $9.99 | 23 73% | 690 | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) | SimDevs |
 | Dino running from a FURRY: GAMESFORFARM | $2.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $1.9k (exactly $1,884) | Piece Of Voxel, Gamesforfarm | |
 | Just Climb | $3.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | Naytics | |
 | Banana Ragdoll | $0.99 | 30 93% | 900 | $891 (exactly $891) | Banana Team | |
 | Psychological Operation | older | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Johnson Studios |
 | Lockdown Hero | older | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Brick Geek Games |
 | Exit Plan | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Iris Interactive | |
 | Air Dash: Sky Racing Simulator | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | JOKER BROTHERS | |
 | Only Jump On Pogo | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chewie Games | |
 | Hold On: The Delivery for the Goose | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | dehai |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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