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Choose Your Own Adventure + Superhero
Only 10 developers shipped a Superhero Choose Your Own Adventure 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, Dispatch, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $9.6k, ×6.4 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $4.5k; 1 in 20 cleared $150M, ×104879 the market median. Revenue is up 160% on the market; 17 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $4.5k (exactly $4,492) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $12,558) |
| Top 5% | $157M (exactly $157,109,213) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 52 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 160% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
- Superhero
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 97% positive over 175,214 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $4.5k. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 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
Dispatch 2025 · $157M 
Batman - The Telltale Series 2016 · $6.8M 
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series 2017 · $4.0M 
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve 2023 · $165k 
Fallen Hero: Retribution 2023 · $149k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dispatch | $29.99 | 174,624 97% | 5.2M | $157M (exactly $157,109,213) | AdHoc Studio | |
| | Batman - The Telltale Series | older | $14.99 | 15,060 87% | 452k | $6.8M (exactly $6,772,482) | Telltale |
| | Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series | older | $14.99 | 8,877 92% | 266k | $4.0M (exactly $3,991,987) | Telltale |
| | Invincible Presents: Atom Eve | older | $9.99 | 550 96% | 17k | $165k (exactly $164,835) | Terrible Posture Games |
| | Fallen Hero: Retribution | older | $11.99 | 415 97% | 12k | $149k (exactly $149,276) | Hosted Games |
 | Fallen Hero: Rebirth | older | $6.99 | 459 96% | 14k | $96k (exactly $96,252) | Hosted Games |
 | Glowing Stones : Heroes' Awakening | · EA older | $11.99 | 259 91% | 7.8k | $93k (exactly $93,162) | MoonLightDevCorp |
 | Villain's Legacy | $9.99 | 294 82% | 8.8k | $88k (exactly $88,112) | Mad scientist lab | |
 | Mister Versatile: A Gay Superhero Visual Novel | older | $19.99 | 123 89% | 3.7k | $74k (exactly $73,763) | Y Press Games, Studio Kosen |
 | Heroes Rise: The Prodigy | older | $4.99 | 381 79% | 11k | $57k (exactly $57,036) | Choice of Games |
 | Hank: Drowning On Dry Land | $2.99 | 140 95% | 4.2k | $13k (exactly $12,558) | My Next Games | |
 | The Magical girl Childhood friend lives Next Door | $9.99 | 39 82% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | Waving.Inc | |
 | Giggle Night: Trixie's Trial | · EA | $19.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Anaximanes Entertainment |
 | Heroes of Tomorrow: Hidden Potential | $7.99 | 32 75% | 960 | $7.7k (exactly $7,670) | Choice of Games | |
 | Villain's Legacy 2 | · EA | $9.99 | 20 50% | 600 | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) | Mad scientist lab |
 | Phantom Thief Angels: Twin Angel - Labyrinth of Time and World - Re:light | $17.50 | 10 100% | 300 | $5.3k (exactly $5,250) | ALTERCIWS | |
 | The Last Scion | $5.99 | 25 84% | 750 | $4.5k (exactly $4,492) | Choice of Games | |
 | Dawn of Heroes | $7.99 | 14 64% | 420 | $3.4k (exactly $3,356) | Hosted Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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