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Choose Your Own Adventure + Werewolves
Only 7 developers shipped a Werewolf 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, The Seven Realms: High Lathión, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.7k, ×9.8 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $3.6k; 1 in 20 cleared $160k, ×350 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $3.6k (exactly $3,599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) |
| Top 25% | $130k (exactly $130,370) |
| Top 5% | $166k (exactly $166,402) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
- Werewolves
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $11.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,227 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.6k. 5 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 6 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.
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- + FlightFair
- + SportsFair
- + Word GameFair
- + MilitaryFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + IdlerFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + 3D FighterLong shot
- + NavalPoor odds
Comparable games
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest 2020 · $362k 
The Seven Realms - Realm 1: Terran 2022 · $212k 
The Seven Realms: High Lathión 2024 · $166k 
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names 2024 · $140k 
Changeling Tale 2023 · $131k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest | older | $14.99 | 805 83% | 24k | $362k (exactly $362,008) | Different Tales |
| | The Seven Realms - Realm 1: Terran | older | $9.99 | 708 81% | 21k | $212k (exactly $212,188) | SeptCloud Games |
| | The Seven Realms: High Lathión | $12.99 | 427 80% | 13k | $166k (exactly $166,402) | SeptCloud Games | |
| | Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names | older | $19.99 | 234 92% | 7.0k | $140k (exactly $140,330) | Choice of Games |
| | Changeling Tale | older | $19.99 | 218 98% | 6.5k | $131k (exactly $130,735) | Helmet Fox |
 | Monster College | $9.99 | 435 95% | 13k | $130k (exactly $130,370) | Monster Eye Games | |
 | Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory | older | $14.99 | 104 79% | 3.1k | $47k (exactly $46,769) | Different Tales |
 | A College of Thirst & Claws | · EA | $11.99 | 117 73% | 3.5k | $42k (exactly $42,085) | SeptCloud Games |
 | Hunter: The Reckoning — The Beast of Glenkildove | $11.99 | 108 91% | 3.2k | $39k (exactly $38,848) | Choice of Games | |
 | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters | $14.99 | 63 80% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,331) | Choice of Games | |
 | Werewolves 3: Evolution's End | $8.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $8.4k (exactly $8,361) | Choice of Games | |
 | The Shame of a Daydreamer | $12.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | Micki | |
 | Havenfall is For Lovers | $29.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $3.6k (exactly $3,599) | UNICO INC. | |
 | Red Riding Hood 🐺 | $4.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | TheBigO Games | |
 | The Last Werewolf | $6.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Unnatural Freaks |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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