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Should I ship an Interactive Fiction Diplomacy game?
Diplomacy + Interactive Fiction
Only 12 developers shipped an Interactive Fiction Diplomacy 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 Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian, 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.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.0k, ×1.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $420. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 17 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $419 (exactly $419) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,025) |
| Top 25% | $39k (exactly $38,674) |
| Top 5% | $1.0M (exactly $1,016,593) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 52 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Diplomacy
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Interactive Fiction
- effort 1 / 10 · high · prose plus a state machine
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Diplomacy, Interactive Fiction
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 4,023 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $420. 17 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Diplomacy with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + City BuilderPoor odds
- + SurvivalPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
Comparable games
The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian 2026 · $1.0M 
Politics The Game 2025 · $757k 
The Fermi Paradox 2021 · EA · $545k 
King Of The Castle 2023 · $420k 
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind 2019 · $276k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian | $24.99 | 1,356 74% | 41k | $1.0M (exactly $1,016,593) | Schisma Games | |
| | Politics The Game | $9.99 | 2,526 95% | 76k | $757k (exactly $757,042) | Simplicity Games | |
| | The Fermi Paradox | · EA older | $18.99 | 956 76% | 29k | $545k (exactly $544,633) | Anomaly Games |
| | King Of The Castle | older | $9.99 | 1,403 90% | 42k | $420k (exactly $420,479) | Tributary Games |
| | Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind | older | $19.99 | 460 81% | 14k | $276k (exactly $275,862) | A Sharp |
 | This Is the President | older | $14.99 | 359 67% | 11k | $161k (exactly $161,442) | SuperPAC |
 | Interstellaria | older | $9.99 | 353 53% | 11k | $106k (exactly $105,794) | Coldrice Games LLC |
 | Lords of Infinity | older | $11.99 | 217 94% | 6.5k | $78k (exactly $78,055) | Hosted Games |
 | HaremKingdom | older | $29.99 | 84 83% | 2.5k | $76k (exactly $75,575) | Smee |
 | The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain | older | $2.99 | 597 96% | 18k | $54k (exactly $53,551) | Randumb Studios |
 | Lunar Ascendant | $14.99 | 86 44% | 2.6k | $39k (exactly $38,674) | Darts Games | |
 | Donutal | $9.99 | 30 93% | 900 | $9.0k (exactly $8,991) | Arc System Works | |
 | Alexandria IV | $11.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | J. M. Beraldo, Time Galleon | |
 | Checkpoint Inc | $4.27 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.0k (exactly $1,025) | Punchers | |
 | The Princess's Tower | · EA | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Infernal Empire Games |
 | A Good Deed On Harris Avenue | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Daniel H. May | |
 | Junkyard Universe | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | Sarah Dressel | |
 | 墨缇斯：霾影季度 | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | 青礼社Bendetizoin |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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