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Choose Your Own Adventure + Point & Click
Of 312 developers who shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Point & Click 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.. 496 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.1k, ×18 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $480; 1 in 20 cleared $320k, ×2706 the market median. Revenue is up 90% on the market; 496 games are announced against 191 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $478 (exactly $478) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) |
| Top 25% | $16k (exactly $15,592) |
| Top 5% | $322k (exactly $321,985) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 312 |
| Released games | 890 |
| Announced | 496 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 90% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Point & Click
- 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, Point & Click; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Visual Novel, Adventure, Choices Matter
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $17.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, 2D, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $17.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 198,830 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 8 in 10 of the 164 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 496 games are announced against 191 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Choose Your Own Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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