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Should I ship a Minigames Interactive Fiction?
Minigames + Interactive Fiction
Only 7 developers shipped a Minigames 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, I Just Want to be Single!! Season One, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 2 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.8k against a market of $120. 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $900 (exactly $900) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 25% | $11k (exactly $11,324) |
| Top 5% | $117k (exactly $116,922) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 25% fewer 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.
- Minigames
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Interactive Fiction
- effort 1 / 10 · high · prose plus a state machine
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Minigames, Interactive Fiction
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 2,132 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Minigames with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + LGBTQ+Strong odds
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + Life SimStrong odds
- + Visual NovelFair
- + SandboxFair
- + RomanceFair
- + ManagementFair
- + ExplorationFair
- + Action-AdventureFair
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + HorrorFair
- + MagicFair
Comparable games
Attentat 1942 2017 · $148k 
Horny Warp: Hentai Fantasy 2023 · $137k 
I Just Want to be Single!! Season One 2025 · EA · $117k 
Button City 2021 · $83k 
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!™ 2009 · $61k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Attentat 1942 | older | $10.99 | 448 92% | 13k | $148k (exactly $147,706) | Charles Games |
| | Horny Warp: Hentai Fantasy | older | $6.99 | 654 92% | 20k | $137k (exactly $137,144) | LuminatiGames |
| | I Just Want to be Single!! Season One | · EA | $14.99 | 260 75% | 7.8k | $117k (exactly $116,922) | m., Tsundere Studio |
| | Button City | older | $19.99 | 138 94% | 4.1k | $83k (exactly $82,759) | Subliminal |
| | Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!™ | older | $19.99 | 102 71% | 3.1k | $61k (exactly $61,169) | Mousechief |
 | Venge | older | $4.99 | 374 91% | 11k | $56k (exactly $55,988) | Costek Games |
 | C14 Dating | older | $19.99 | 58 93% | 1.7k | $35k (exactly $34,783) | Winter Wolves |
 | Sips and Sonnets | $6.99 | 54 100% | 1.6k | $11k (exactly $11,324) | Blue Tango Street | |
 | Fell in love with the Nobility girl As a member of the rebel organization | $6.99 | 28 78% | 840 | $5.9k (exactly $5,872) | selenophobia | |
 | Faircroft's Antiques: Treasures of Treffenburg | older | $9.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | Boomzap Inc |
 | Winter Heat | $19.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Yuri Kissaten | |
 | A Tale Of Shadows: Fragments Part I | $29.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $900 (exactly $900) | Madwriter Games | |
 | CLEANING.INC | $2.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Alex Falx | |
 | Strip Me Down: Jock | $0.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | Kipukink | |
 | Strip Me Down: Office Worker | $0.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | Kipukink |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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