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Should I ship a Magic Dynamic Narration game?
Dynamic Narration + Magic
Only 16 developers shipped a Magic 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, Drova - Forsaken Kin, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 41 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $630, ×1.3 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $7.0M, ×14923 the market median. Revenue is up 440% on the market; 41 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $628 (exactly $628) |
| Top 25% | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) |
| Top 5% | $7.1M (exactly $7,088,414) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 41 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 up 440% on the market, supply 120% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, 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
- Magic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Dynamic Narration; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Action, Action RPG
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, Hand-drawn
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 10,430 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 8 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 41 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Drova - Forsaken Kin 2024 · $7.1M 
Witchy Business 2025 · $389k 
The Inquisitor 2024 · $332k 
Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm 2023 · $266k 
Wizards and Warlords 2020 · $76k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Drova - Forsaken Kin | $24.99 | 9,455 93% | 284k | $7.1M (exactly $7,088,414) | Just2D | |
| | Witchy Business | $14.99 | 865 86% | 26k | $389k (exactly $388,990) | Rogue Duck Interactive | |
| | The Inquisitor | older | $39.99 | 277 66% | 8.3k | $332k (exactly $332,317) | The Dust S.A. |
| | Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm | older | $29.99 | 296 73% | 8.9k | $266k (exactly $266,311) | Cornfox & Brothers Ltd. |
| | Wizards and Warlords | older | $9.99 | 253 82% | 7.6k | $76k (exactly $75,824) | Valravn Games |
 | Bow Down & Eyes Up | $19.99 | 65 66% | 2.0k | $39k (exactly $38,980) | Yamada Mikio | |
 | Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind | older | $19.99 | 65 86% | 2.0k | $39k (exactly $38,980) | Owned by Gravity, Ulisses Digital |
 | Aris Arcanum | $14.99 | 19 73% | 570 | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) | Broken Cane | |
 | Another World - Thought Taboo | older | $4.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | Ashwind |
 | EverWorld | · EA older | $10.99 | 9 33% | 270 | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) | Light Up Game Studios |
 | Crownborne | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | LumenStudio | |
 | The Cascadier | · EA | $10.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.3k (exactly $1,319) | Enchanted Arcade |
 | A Father's Tale | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Deep Cave Studios | |
 | Domain of Hallucination | · EA | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Wid… (Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Widmer, Jonas Wiesli, rnaisa) |
 | Don't Ask Succubus | $3.99 | 5 0% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Varlov981 | |
 | Cook or Be Cooked: Your next meal could be your last—or your true love | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Funigami |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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