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Should I ship a Choose Your Own Adventure Shoot 'Em Up?
Shoot 'Em Up + Choose Your Own Adventure
Only 6 developers shipped a Choose Your Own Adventure Shoot 'Em Up 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, VILOVEJETS, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.0k against a market of $480. 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,040) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) |
| Top 5% | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 3 / 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 down 70% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shoot 'Em Up
- 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
- Shoot 'Em Up, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $15.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 4,193 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 9 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Shoot 'Em Up with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + VampiresFair
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- + IdlerFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + Resource ManagementFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + SwordplayLong shot
- + MusicPoor odds
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
Comparable games
SEX with HITLER 2022 · $704k 
Hero of Fate 2023 · $44k 
Kamikaze Lassplanes 2024 · $22k 
Super Retro Fighter 2021 · EA · $21k 
Sierra Ops - Space Strategy Visual Novel 2020 · $19k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SEX with HITLER | older | $6.99 | 3,358 81% | 101k | $704k (exactly $704,173) | Adolf Games |
| | Hero of Fate | older | $2.99 | 495 78% | 15k | $44k (exactly $44,402) | Planescape Game Studio |
| | Kamikaze Lassplanes | older | $19.99 | 37 91% | 1.1k | $22k (exactly $22,189) | Inky Dreams |
| | Super Retro Fighter | · EA older | $11.99 | 57 73% | 1.7k | $21k (exactly $20,503) | Syndrome interactive, Cat God Studio |
| | Sierra Ops - Space Strategy Visual Novel | older | $14.99 | 42 80% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $18,887) | Innomen Team |
 | Brother Wings | older | $1.99 | 130 72% | 3.9k | $7.8k (exactly $7,761) | Brogames |
 | Survival Mission Z | older | $7.99 | 32 62% | 960 | $7.7k (exactly $7,670) | RsWorks |
 | Kooring VR Wonderland:Mecadino's Attack | older | $15.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $4.8k (exactly $4,797) | VRANI inc. |
 | VILOVEJETS | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Polka Studio | |
 | Just Survive | older | $4.99 | 21 47% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | Boritto |
 | Galactic Plague 2000 | $4.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Yacoobs C.M, TR Old School Gamer | |
 | MEMOLOGY: ESCAPE OF MEMES | $0.99 | 35 91% | 1.1k | $1.0k (exactly $1,040) | Gamesforfarm, Piece Of Voxel | |
 | Glusiverse | · EA | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Trusiga |
 | Peekablock | · EA | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Goose Gang Games |
 | GastroNomicon | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | TH3 NΔKOMΔ PROTOCOL |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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