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Should I ship a Nature Dynamic Narration game?
Dynamic Narration + Nature
Only 12 developers shipped a Nature 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.. 24 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120, ×0.3 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 24 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper, while revenue is down 95% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) |
| Top 5% | $7.0M (exactly $7,045,838) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 24 |
| 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 95% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, 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
- Nature
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 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 7 games average 86% positive over 6,349 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
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Comparable games
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage 2025 · $7.0M 
A Highland Song 2023 · $298k 
Under The Island 2026 · $267k 
DinoSystem 2015 · EA · $59k 
Wanderlust: Travel Stories 2019 · $54k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Lost Records: Bloom & Rage | $39.99 | 5,873 86% | 176k | $7.0M (exactly $7,045,838) | DON'T NOD | |
| | A Highland Song | older | $17.99 | 553 87% | 17k | $298k (exactly $298,454) | inkle Ltd |
| | Under The Island | $19.99 | 446 92% | 13k | $267k (exactly $267,466) | Slime King Games | |
| | DinoSystem | · EA older | $7.99 | 247 92% | 7.4k | $59k (exactly $59,206) | Daniele Ferraro |
| | Wanderlust: Travel Stories | older | $14.99 | 119 83% | 3.6k | $54k (exactly $53,514) | Different Tales |
 | Inua - A Story in Ice and Time | older | $14.99 | 81 93% | 2.4k | $36k (exactly $36,426) | The Pixel Hunt, IKO, ARTE France |
 | OVERVIEW (A Walk Through The Universe) | older | $9.99 | 114 71% | 3.4k | $34k (exactly $34,166) | Orbital Views |
 | Minabo - A walk through life | older | $14.99 | 58 75% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $26,083) | DevilishGames |
 | Yosemite Forest Ranger | · EA older | $14.99 | 15 60% | 450 | $6.7k (exactly $6,746) | TT Studios |
 | Upstream | $7.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Gllama Games | |
 | Vonkelveld | · EA | $14.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Software MoosS |
 | Missing The Point | $7.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Burner Phone | |
 | Robot and Flowers | $1.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Jhol Dev | |
 | Tenfold Tales | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | lapys games | |
 | Enchanted Valley: Fantasy Slide Puzzle | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Spectral Elixir Software | |
 | Magus Relics: the Majimono | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hodu Aphrodite | |
 | Joltstone | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Soulnata |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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