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Should I ship a Snow Interactive Fiction?
Interactive Fiction + Snow
Only 10 developers shipped a Snow 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, Easy Delivery Co., made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480, level with the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $360. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 12 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $360 (exactly $360) |
|---|---|
| Median | $478 (exactly $478) |
| Top 25% | $958 (exactly $958) |
| Top 5% | $3.7M (exactly $3,716,959) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 300% 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.
- Interactive Fiction
- effort 1 / 10 · high · prose plus a state machine
- Snow
- 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
- Interactive Fiction
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 9,594 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 12 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Interactive Fiction with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + Match 3Fair
- + VampiresFair
- + SportsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + PiratesFair
- + DrivingFair
- + DiplomacyFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + Board GameFair
- + BuildingFair
- + SpellingPoor odds
Comparable games
Easy Delivery Co. 2025 · $3.7M 
The Pale Beyond 2023 · $1.1M 
The Red Lantern 2021 · $700k 
Mashiroiro Symphony HD -Love is Pure White- 2024 · $425k 
Mashiroiro Symphony HD -Sana Edition- 2024 · $404k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Easy Delivery Co. | $12.99 | 9,538 95% | 286k | $3.7M (exactly $3,716,959) | Sam C | |
| | The Pale Beyond | older | $19.99 | 1,858 90% | 56k | $1.1M (exactly $1,114,243) | Saltstone Studios |
| | The Red Lantern | older | $24.99 | 934 83% | 28k | $700k (exactly $700,220) | Timberline Studio |
| | Mashiroiro Symphony HD -Love is Pure White- | older | $39.99 | 354 87% | 11k | $425k (exactly $424,694) | Palette |
| | Mashiroiro Symphony HD -Sana Edition- | older | $29.99 | 449 91% | 13k | $404k (exactly $403,965) | Palette |
 | Kona II: Brume | older | $29.99 | 433 80% | 13k | $390k (exactly $389,570) | Parabole |
 | Winter Novel | older | $4.99 | 457 82% | 14k | $68k (exactly $68,413) | DeXP |
 | First Snow | older | $9.99 | 125 90% | 3.8k | $37k (exactly $37,462) | Studio Ly |
 | Firebird | older | $11.99 | 68 100% | 2.0k | $24k (exactly $24,460) | Ludogram, FibreTigre, Quentin Vijoux |
 | Thaw | $8.99 | 25 100% | 750 | $6.7k (exactly $6,742) | paochanz | |
 | Noelle | $3.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | Bandaloop Games GmbH | |
 | Frostveil: The Last Winter | $3.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Alabarda Gaming | |
 | Family Dinner | $1.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $478 (exactly $478) | Marcela Stolzmann, Mari Fujiwara | |
 | The Blessing of Airon | $2.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | BakerTheGameMaker | |
 | Four Nights at Yuki's -Yotsuya no Yuki- | $11.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Sibyl Networks | |
 | I Offered You the Crown | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Winter Twilight Productions, LLC | |
 | The Hunted | · EA | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Unforgiving Worlds |
 | When It Falls | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Team Stargazer |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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