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Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Dynamic Narration game?
Dynamic Narration + LGBTQ+
Only 12 developers shipped an LGBTQ+ 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, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced, ×4.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $8.2k, ×17 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $810; 1 in 20 cleared $7.0M, ×14833 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 22 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $809 (exactly $809) |
|---|---|
| Median | $8.2k (exactly $8,150) |
| Top 25% | $55k (exactly $54,652) |
| Top 5% | $7.0M (exactly $7,045,838) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 down 80% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Dynamic Narration
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- LGBTQ+
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Dynamic Narration
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 7,008 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $810. 7 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 22 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dynamic Narration with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + RomancePoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
Comparable games
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy 2019 · $32M 
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage 2025 · $7.0M 
Outcast - A New Beginning 2024 · $1.5M 
My Bimbo Dream 2025 · $291k 
Ballshit 2025 · $55k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy | older | $29.99 | 35,628 97% | 1.1M | $32M (exactly $32,054,512) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | Lost Records: Bloom & Rage | $39.99 | 5,873 86% | 176k | $7.0M (exactly $7,045,838) | DON'T NOD | |
| | Outcast - A New Beginning | older | $39.99 | 1,232 78% | 37k | $1.5M (exactly $1,478,030) | Appeal Studios |
| | My Bimbo Dream | $14.99 | 647 77% | 19k | $291k (exactly $290,956) | MBD | |
| | Ballshit | $7.99 | 228 95% | 6.8k | $55k (exactly $54,652) | 疯兔游戏（FUNTOO Studio）, Liquid Meow | |
 | Wanderlust: Travel Stories | older | $14.99 | 119 83% | 3.6k | $54k (exactly $53,514) | Different Tales |
 | Throne of Monsters 怪物的王座 | $12.99 | 130 92% | 3.9k | $51k (exactly $50,661) | 雏形游戏 | |
 | Across the Grooves | older | $13.99 | 108 91% | 3.2k | $45k (exactly $45,328) | Nova-box |
 | Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain | older | $11.99 | 102 96% | 3.1k | $37k (exactly $36,689) | Fiction Factory Games |
 | Mythos, Book One | $12.99 | 67 83% | 2.0k | $26k (exactly $26,110) | Nine of Swords Studios | |
 | Novel Forger: Suicide Mr. Fury | $7.99 | 34 100% | 1.0k | $8.2k (exactly $8,150) | KK Narratif | |
 | Lap of the Gods: A Visual Novel | $7.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Muda Games | |
 | Fire of Life: New Day | $4.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Darken Visuals | |
 | Bean Sidhe | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Sealbee Games | |
 | Don't Ask Succubus | $3.99 | 5 0% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Varlov981 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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