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Should I ship a Space Dynamic Narration game?
Dynamic Narration + Space
Only 16 developers shipped a Space 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, The Message from Deep Space, 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, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $90; 1 in 20 cleared $430k, ×693 the market median. Revenue is up 2290% on the market; 24 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 25% | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
| Top 5% | $435k (exactly $435,464) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 2290% on the market, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- Space
- 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; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Choices Matter, Exploration
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Atmospheric, Dialogue Heavy
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 1,646 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 9 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
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Comparable games
Event[0] 2016 · $869k 
The Message from Deep Space 2026 · $435k 
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure 2024 · $189k 
The Franz Kafka Videogame 2017 · $136k 
Starr Mazer: DSP 2016 · EA · $68k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Event[0] | older | $19.99 | 1,449 79% | 43k | $869k (exactly $868,965) | Ocelot Society |
| | The Message from Deep Space | $9.99 | 1,453 96% | 44k | $435k (exactly $435,464) | Applesinmypants | |
| | Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure | older | $15.99 | 395 88% | 12k | $189k (exactly $189,482) | DigiTales Interactive |
| | The Franz Kafka Videogame | older | $6.99 | 649 63% | 19k | $136k (exactly $136,095) | Denis Galanin (mif2000) |
| | Starr Mazer: DSP | · EA older | $9.99 | 228 68% | 6.8k | $68k (exactly $68,332) | Imagos Softworks, Subpixel Studios |
 | Return to Grace | older | $14.99 | 87 94% | 2.6k | $39k (exactly $39,124) | Creative Bytes Studios |
 | OVERVIEW (A Walk Through The Universe) | older | $9.99 | 114 71% | 3.4k | $34k (exactly $34,166) | Orbital Views |
 | Endless Dark | $7.99 | 115 99% | 3.5k | $28k (exactly $27,566) | Little Light Studios, LLC | |
 | Irreversible | · EA | $19.99 | 41 92% | 1.2k | $25k (exactly $24,588) | Delusional Reality Studio |
 | Reigns Beyond | older | $4.99 | 68 83% | 2.0k | $10k (exactly $10,180) | Nerial |
 | ORBITAL | $9.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Night Sky Dogs | |
 | debris | $9.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Evar Space | |
 | Stellar Cafe | $9.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | AstroBeam | |
 | The Gods of the Red Planet | $2.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Aurora Way Studios | |
 | 9 MINUTES AND 59 SECONDS TO HEAVEN | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Fake Carbonara | |
 | DEEP SLEEP | $5.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Proxima Projects | |
 | Adrift | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Moryi Limited |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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