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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure Precision Platformer?
Precision Platformer + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 15 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Precision Platformer 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, Good Luck, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $356 (exactly $356) |
| Top 25% | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) |
| Top 5% | $6.3k (exactly $6,287) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 55% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Precision Platformer, Choose Your Own Adventure; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Physics
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $17.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Atmospheric, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $17.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 139 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Precision Platformer with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + FPSFair
- + GothicFair
- + HorrorFair
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + SandboxFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
- + RPGFair
Comparable games
Flying Tobacco Eggs 2024 · $16k 
Good Luck 2026 · $6.3k 
Hotdangle 2025 · $5.9k 
Corsair`s Madness 2024 · $5.1k 
Organic Evolution 2026 · $3.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Flying Tobacco Eggs | older | $39.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $16k (exactly $15,596) | Gamesforgames |
| | Good Luck | $4.99 | 42 69% | 1.3k | $6.3k (exactly $6,287) | Happybara Games | |
| | Hotdangle | $17.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $5.9k (exactly $5,937) | Devorange Studio Inc | |
| | Corsair`s Madness | older | $9.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Old Prawn |
| | Organic Evolution | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Explore Dreams: Dreamcore | $12.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) | Maxwell Play | |
 | 4番線 | Platform 4 | $4.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | MFC STUDIO, KOSEI YASUDA | |
 | Vigaro Runner | older | $4.99 | 13 76% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software |
 | Just Climb | $3.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | Naytics | |
 | Music Man | older | $4.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software, NTStudi… (Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software, NTStudios) |
 | Nice Pro? | $0.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $446 (exactly $446) | NicePro | |
 | Pharaoh's Leap | $0.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $416 (exactly $416) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Miser King gamesforfarm | $0.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $356 (exactly $356) | Gamesforfarm | |
 | Only for Gamers | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Merhaba Yazılım |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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