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Should I ship a Historical Dynamic Narration game?
Dynamic Narration + Historical
Only 17 developers shipped a Historical Dynamic Narration 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, Citadelum, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 36 more are announced, ×4.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.6k, ×5.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $750; 1 in 20 cleared $750k, ×1200 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 36 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $748 (exactly $748) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
| Top 25% | $35k (exactly $35,065) |
| Top 5% | $753k (exactly $753,448) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 61 |
| Announced | 36 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 down 80% on the market, supply 10% fewer 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.
- Dynamic Narration
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Historical
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Dynamic Narration; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, RPG, Sandbox
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,847 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $750. 9 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 36 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger 2013 · $9.4M 
The Town of Light 2016 · $1.2M 
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter 2023 · $767k 
Citadelum 2024 · $753k 
All Quiet in the Trenches 2024 · EA · $690k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Call of Juarez: Gunslinger | older | $14.99 | 20,869 94% | 626k | $9.4M (exactly $9,384,789) | Techland |
| | The Town of Light | older | $18.99 | 2,052 79% | 62k | $1.2M (exactly $1,169,024) | LKA |
| | Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter | older | $29.99 | 852 73% | 26k | $767k (exactly $766,544) | Iron Wolf Studio S.A. |
| | Citadelum | $24.99 | 1,005 83% | 30k | $753k (exactly $753,448) | Abylight Barcelona | |
| | All Quiet in the Trenches | · EA older | $24.99 | 921 90% | 28k | $690k (exactly $690,474) | Totally Not Aliens |
 | 武林志2 (Wushu Chronicles 2) | · EA older | $19.99 | 795 41% | 24k | $477k (exactly $476,761) | JiangHu Studio |
 | Under The Island | $19.99 | 446 92% | 13k | $267k (exactly $267,466) | Slime King Games | |
 | Blitzkrieg Anthology | older | $4.99 | 1,392 89% | 42k | $208k (exactly $208,382) | Nival |
 | Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology | older | $4.99 | 1,116 84% | 33k | $167k (exactly $167,065) | Nival |
 | The Bible | older | $4.99 | 965 87% | 29k | $144k (exactly $144,460) | Bible Games |
 | Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing | $19.99 | 83 87% | 2.5k | $50k (exactly $49,775) | Active Fungus Studios | |
 | Medieval Legacy | $19.99 | 66 86% | 2.0k | $40k (exactly $39,580) | Ninetoplay | |
 | Omen Exitio: Hunger | $9.99 | 117 88% | 3.5k | $35k (exactly $35,065) | Tiny Bull Studios | |
 | Observe | · EA | $7.99 | 74 91% | 2.2k | $18k (exactly $17,738) | Kisotik Games |
 | NAPOLEON: RULE OF IRON | $19.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $13k (exactly $13,193) | Eisengeist Studio | |
 | Command by Voice: World Conquest | · EA | $9.99 | 19 52% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | Side Meicai |
 | Nazar | $9.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Eray Dinc Studio, Recontact Games | |
 | Switchboard | $15.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Jonathan Yeap |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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