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Should I ship a Martial-Arts Interactive Fiction?
Interactive Fiction + Martial Arts
Only 19 developers shipped a Martial-Arts Interactive Fiction 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, 再见断刀, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 10 developers shipped in the last year and 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $2.8k (exactly $2,753) |
| Top 5% | $768k (exactly $768,131) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 5%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Interactive Fiction
- effort 1 / 10 · high · prose plus a state machine
- Martial Arts
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Interactive Fiction; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Visual Novel, Adventure, Dating Sim
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, Anime, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 2,955 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Interactive Fiction with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Match 3Fair
- + VampiresFair
- + SportsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + PiratesFair
- + DrivingFair
- + DiplomacyFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Board GameFair
- + SnowFair
- + BuildingFair
Comparable games
风信楼 2021 · $1.2M 
再见断刀 2025 · $768k 
风流公子romantic young man 2024 · $105k 
Songs of Wuxia 2020 · $92k 
铜刀银剑 2026 · $52k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 风信楼 | older | $11.99 | 3,423 94% | 103k | $1.2M (exactly $1,231,253) | Pingfang Games |
| | 再见断刀 | $9.99 | 2,563 92% | 77k | $768k (exactly $768,131) | 非侠游戏 | |
| | 风流公子romantic young man | older | $4.99 | 704 92% | 21k | $105k (exactly $105,389) | Ronin SoftWork |
| | Songs of Wuxia | older | $3.99 | 768 78% | 23k | $92k (exactly $91,930) | DreamStep |
| | 铜刀银剑 | $9.26 | 188 80% | 5.6k | $52k (exactly $52,226) | 念绣科技 | |
 | romantic player | older | $2.99 | 424 73% | 13k | $38k (exactly $38,033) | Ronin SoftWork |
 | Morningstar: Book of the Fallen | $14.99 | 67 94% | 2.0k | $30k (exactly $30,130) | Droid Productions | |
 | Primal Hearts | $24.99 | 38 89% | 1.1k | $28k (exactly $28,489) | Marmalade | |
 | Wings of Empire | · EA | $14.99 | 49 87% | 1.5k | $22k (exactly $22,035) | Droid Productions |
 | Primal Hearts 2 | $24.99 | 23 95% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | Marmalade | |
 | Re: GSpot Master | $3.99 | 23 60% | 690 | $2.8k (exactly $2,753) | Bang Bang King | |
 | Transforming my fiancée | $9.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | FSK20006 | |
 | OKeverything with 3000 beauties 2 | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | XIOF FAN, S+TEAMBABA, XU TING | |
 | OKeverything with 3000 beauties 3 | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | XIOF FAN, XU TING, S+TEAMBABA |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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