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Choose Your Own Adventure + Word Game
Of 55 developers who shipped a Word Game Choose Your Own Adventure game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 65 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.4k, ×12 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $450. Revenue is up 35% on the market; 65 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $450 (exactly $450) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) |
| Top 25% | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) |
| Top 5% | $192k (exactly $191,636) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 55 |
| Released games | 120 |
| Announced | 65 |
| Effort | 2 / 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 35% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- effort 2 / 10 · high · branching text with light state
- Word Game
- effort 1 / 10 · high · dictionary logic and simple UI
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure, Word Game; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Visual Novel, Choices Matter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $13.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Story Rich, Text-Based
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $13.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 9,971 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 7 in 10 of the 27 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 65 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Choose Your Own Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Score AttackFair
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- + GamblingFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + 3D FighterLong shot
- + NavalPoor odds
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Comparable games
Word Game 2022 · $6.2M 
Homicipher 2024 · $3.3M 
Far Away 2021 · $3.0M 
WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界 2017 · $2.1M 
7 Days to End with You 2022 · $797k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Word Game | older | $34.99 | 5,930 93% | 178k | $6.2M (exactly $6,224,721) | Team9 |
| | Homicipher | $13.99 | 7,821 96% | 235k | $3.3M (exactly $3,282,474) | 八名木Games | |
| | Far Away | older | $12.99 | 7,598 94% | 228k | $3.0M (exactly $2,960,941) | Gratesca |
| | WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界 | older | $14.99 | 4,588 92% | 138k | $2.1M (exactly $2,063,224) | WMY Studio |
| | 7 Days to End with You | older | $7.99 | 3,327 87% | 100k | $797k (exactly $797,482) | Lizardry |
 | Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk | older | $29.99 | 600 84% | 18k | $540k (exactly $539,820) | IDEA FACTORY |
 | The Expression Amrilato | older | $24.99 | 682 97% | 20k | $511k (exactly $511,295) | SukeraSparo |
 | Cellveillance | $15.99 | 531 85% | 16k | $255k (exactly $254,721) | KARMAGAME HK LIMITED | |
 | 纸上的魔法使 | $29.99 | 213 89% | 6.4k | $192k (exactly $191,636) | UGUISUKAGURA | |
 | The Bible | older | $4.99 | 965 87% | 29k | $144k (exactly $144,460) | Bible Games |
 | Insects Awaken | $8.99 | 398 88% | 12k | $107k (exactly $107,341) | HelloMeow | |
 | The Simen Rumors | $8.00 | 430 78% | 13k | $103k (exactly $103,200) | 羊之口 | |
 | Uberich: Advent Sinners | $14.99 | 151 73% | 4.5k | $68k (exactly $67,905) | NBDR Games | |
 | Throne of Monsters 怪物的王座 | $12.99 | 130 92% | 3.9k | $51k (exactly $50,661) | 雏形游戏 | |
 | TIME TO STARⅡ偶像之路终极版 | $12.99 | 124 70% | 3.7k | $48k (exactly $48,323) | 随便做做游戏组 | |
 | Ghostwriter Workshop | $10.99 | 137 94% | 4.1k | $45k (exactly $45,169) | 秘密結社マテンロウ計画, Studio Dragonet | |
 | MAELSTROM LEGACY: The Tesla Mystery | $10.99 | 36 69% | 1.1k | $12k (exactly $11,869) | Wistfulware |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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