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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure Score Attack game?
Score Attack + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 14 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Score Attack 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, Hologuard, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.9 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $360. Revenue is up 935% on the market; 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $11,506) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 11 |
| 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 935% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Score Attack
- 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
- Score Attack, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 204 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 9 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Score Attack with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + MechsFair
- + Spectacle fighterFair
- + DragonsFair
- + VampiresFair
- + CookingFair
- + SuperheroFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + GolfFair
- + GothicFair
- + ModernFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + HackingFair
Comparable games
DUCK: Dangerous Ultimate Cartridge Kidnapper 2023 · $17k 
Refund Me If You Can 2022 · $14k 
Hologuard 2026 · $12k 
Don't Crash 2026 · $10k 
RolemIAster 2026 · EA · $4.1k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DUCK: Dangerous Ultimate Cartridge Kidnapper | older | $8.99 | 64 71% | 1.9k | $17k (exactly $17,261) | Duck Team |
| | Refund Me If You Can | older | $3.99 | 113 78% | 3.4k | $14k (exactly $13,526) | Sungame Studio |
| | Hologuard | $7.99 | 48 95% | 1.4k | $12k (exactly $11,506) | illuCalab | |
| | Don't Crash | $4.99 | 68 98% | 2.0k | $10k (exactly $10,180) | Override Studio | |
| | RolemIAster | · EA | $5.99 | 23 56% | 690 | $4.1k (exactly $4,133) | ABAFE |
 | Idyllic cats: Japan | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | GameRED indie | |
 | EmyLiveShow: BossRush | $4.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) | Team Emily | |
 | I Know Everything | older | $3.99 | 20 80% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | NLB project |
 | Galactic Plague 2000 | $4.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Yacoobs C.M, TR Old School Gamer | |
 | Choi | older | $7.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Kevin Kim |
 | Keeb Quest: Typing Battles | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | J.Man Games | |
 | Is this a Game yet? | · EA | $1.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $716 (exactly $716) | Onizumi Kohari |
 | CLEANING.INC | $2.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Alex Falx | |
 | Click Me: Hentai Adventures | $3.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | Mistiuk Creations |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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