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Choose Your Own Adventure + Science
Of 22 developers who shipped a Science Choose Your Own Adventure 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.. 30 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.9k, ×6.2 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $420; 1 in 20 cleared $53k, ×113 the market median. Revenue is up 175% on the market; 30 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $420 (exactly $420) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $21,942) |
| Top 5% | $54k (exactly $53,514) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 22 |
| Released games | 62 |
| Announced | 30 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 175% on the market, supply 45% more developers than 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
- Science
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Dating Sim
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Cute, Relaxing
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 966 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $420. 8 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
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
Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- 2016 · $2.3M 
Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- 2022 · $852k 
Haven Moon 2016 · $232k 
SCP Strategy 2022 · $117k 
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- | older | $9.99 | 7,777 95% | 233k | $2.3M (exactly $2,330,767) | Modern Visual Arts Laboratory, SEO INSE… (Modern Visual Arts Laboratory, SEO INSEOK) |
| | Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- | older | $39.99 | 710 88% | 21k | $852k (exactly $851,787) | Laplacian |
| | Haven Moon | older | $11.99 | 646 77% | 19k | $232k (exactly $232,366) | Francois Roussel |
| | SCP Strategy | older | $6.99 | 556 78% | 17k | $117k (exactly $116,593) | LUXO Interactive |
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 | Doki Doki AI Interrogation | older | $3.49 | 485 81% | 15k | $51k (exactly $50,780) | YAMADA |
 | ASTROBOTANICA | · EA | $19.99 | 76 59% | 2.3k | $46k (exactly $45,577) | Space Goblin Studio |
 | My Furry Protogen 3 🐾 | $4.99 | 221 95% | 6.6k | $33k (exactly $33,084) | Dirty Fox Games | |
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 | Meco Rocket Simulator | · EA | $49.69 | 15 80% | 450 | $22k (exactly $22,360) | Loren Aerospace |
 | TELLURICENE | $11.99 | 61 100% | 1.8k | $22k (exactly $21,942) | DEADline Studios | |
 | The Libido Enigma | $12.99 | 46 84% | 1.4k | $18k (exactly $17,926) | broiler_x | |
 | Dilemma | $5.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $3.8k (exactly $3,774) | DrAxelStudio | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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