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Should I ship a Western Choose Your Own Adventure game?
Choose Your Own Adventure + Western
Only 7 developers shipped a Western 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, WANTED: Wild Sluts 🔞, 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, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.9k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,875) |
| Top 25% | $9.7k (exactly $9,712) |
| Top 5% | $63k (exactly $62,958) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 330% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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
- Western
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 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 $26.99 or above; the middle game at $11.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 6,159 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 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
Wild West Legacy 2024 · $1.4M 
Arco 2024 · $1.3M 
The Oregon Trail 2022 · $1.1M 
Exoplanet: First Contact 2016 · EA · $138k 
Deadwater Saloon 2022 · $112k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Wild West Legacy | older | $26.99 | 1,706 39% | 51k | $1.4M (exactly $1,381,348) | Moon Punch Studio |
| | Arco | older | $19.99 | 2,185 96% | 66k | $1.3M (exactly $1,310,344) | Franek, Max Cahill, Bibiki, Fáyer |
| | The Oregon Trail | older | $29.99 | 1,220 79% | 37k | $1.1M (exactly $1,097,634) | Gameloft |
| | Exoplanet: First Contact | · EA older | $19.99 | 230 73% | 6.9k | $138k (exactly $137,931) | Alersteam |
| | Deadwater Saloon | older | $19.99 | 186 63% | 5.6k | $112k (exactly $111,544) | Tanglefoot Games |
 | Tin Star | older | $11.99 | 298 95% | 8.9k | $107k (exactly $107,191) | Hosted Games |
 | WANTED: Wild Sluts 🔞 | $14.99 | 140 68% | 4.2k | $63k (exactly $62,958) | Lewd Star | |
 | Star Story: The Horizon Escape | older | $14.99 | 104 89% | 3.1k | $47k (exactly $46,769) | EvilCoGames |
 | Cave Digger | older | $14.90 | 63 82% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,161) | VRKiwi |
 | Brooks in Wild West | $11.99 | 27 74% | 810 | $9.7k (exactly $9,712) | PiggyNose Games | |
 | Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure | $14.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | Forward Instinct | |
 | Again!? The Sheriff’s Kinky Justice | $3.29 | 19 52% | 570 | $1.9k (exactly $1,875) | Myriad | |
 | Wild West Saloon Simulator | · EA | $7.99 | 5 20% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Walty Games |
 | Checkmate in the Wild West - Chess Adventure | $3.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Grouper Games LLC | |
 | Atonement | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nexus Media |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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