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Should I ship a WWII Choose Your Own Adventure game?
Choose Your Own Adventure + World War II
Only 4 developers shipped a WWII Choose Your Own Adventure game in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 10 did: 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.. 5 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.7k against a market of $630. 5 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) |
|---|---|
| Median | $14k (exactly $14,024) |
| Top 25% | $48k (exactly $47,602) |
| Top 5% | $1.0M (exactly $1,025,744) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 5 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, 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
- World War II
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 17,514 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.7k. 5 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 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
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™ 2022 · $1.8M 
Rule the Waves 3 2023 · $1.0M 
Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- 2022 · $852k 
SEX with HITLER 2022 · $704k 
Sex with Stalin 2020 · $398k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™ | older | $9.99 | 6,039 90% | 181k | $1.8M (exactly $1,809,888) | Psyop |
| | Rule the Waves 3 | older | $39.99 | 855 87% | 26k | $1.0M (exactly $1,025,744) | Naval Warfare Simulations |
| | Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- | older | $39.99 | 710 88% | 21k | $852k (exactly $851,787) | Laplacian |
| | SEX with HITLER | older | $6.99 | 3,358 81% | 101k | $704k (exactly $704,173) | Adolf Games |
| | Sex with Stalin | older | $5.99 | 2,217 83% | 67k | $398k (exactly $398,395) | Mova Games |
 | Gerda: A Flame in Winter | older | $19.99 | 498 94% | 15k | $299k (exactly $298,651) | BirdIsland/PortaPlay |
 | Attentat 1942 | older | $10.99 | 448 92% | 13k | $148k (exactly $147,706) | Charles Games |
 | Seek Girl Ⅱ | older | $1.99 | 2,398 81% | 72k | $143k (exactly $143,161) | DSGame |
 | FURRY HITLER | older | $6.99 | 677 78% | 20k | $142k (exactly $141,967) | Furry Tails |
 | Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures | older | $14.99 | 314 89% | 9.4k | $141k (exactly $141,206) | Telltale |
 | Grizzly Man | $8.99 | 52 90% | 1.6k | $14k (exactly $14,024) | LCB Game Studio | |
 | Get In Get Out | $3.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | Wessi | |
 | Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Asterism Games | |
 | 6days | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | TechAzy |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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