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Interactive Fiction + Vampires
Of 41 developers who shipped a Vampire Interactive Fiction in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 52 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $50. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 52 games are announced against 26 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,841) |
| Top 25% | $5.1k (exactly $5,097) |
| Top 5% | $74k (exactly $73,738) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 41 |
| Released games | 91 |
| Announced | 52 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 down 25% on the market, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Vampires
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Interactive Fiction; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Choices Matter, Adventure, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Story Rich, Text-Based
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 3,035 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 22 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 52 games are announced against 26 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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Comparable games
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York 2019 · $1.4M 
Cabernet 2025 · $1.2M 
Vampires' Melody 2020 · $665k 
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road 2020 · $251k 
When The Night Comes 2021 · $113k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York | older | $19.99 | 2,279 74% | 68k | $1.4M (exactly $1,366,716) | Draw Distance |
| | Cabernet | $19.99 | 2,025 94% | 61k | $1.2M (exactly $1,214,392) | Party for Introverts | |
| | Vampires' Melody | older | $3.99 | 5,559 97% | 167k | $665k (exactly $665,412) | AsicxArt |
| | Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road | older | $11.99 | 698 90% | 21k | $251k (exactly $251,071) | Choice of Games |
| | When The Night Comes | older | $12.99 | 289 92% | 8.7k | $113k (exactly $112,623) | Lunaris Games |
 | Erannorth Renaissance | $19.99 | 186 81% | 5.6k | $112k (exactly $111,544) | Spyridon Thalassinos | |
 | Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives | older | $11.99 | 304 94% | 9.1k | $109k (exactly $109,349) | Choice of Games |
 | Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One | older | $7.99 | 358 92% | 11k | $86k (exactly $85,813) | Hosted Games |
 | A Vampyre Story | older | $9.99 | 258 75% | 7.7k | $77k (exactly $77,323) | Autumn Moon Entertainment, Jordan Freem… (Autumn Moon Entertainment, Jordan Freeman Group) |
 | The World Well: Blood of Caro | $11.99 | 205 85% | 6.2k | $74k (exactly $73,738) | Nimparth | |
 | Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of MoonFall | · EA | $19.99 | 111 71% | 3.3k | $67k (exactly $66,567) | A Memory of Eternity |
 | Fledgling Manor | $11.75 | 161 98% | 4.8k | $57k (exactly $56,752) | In Secret Places | |
 | Phantom of the Twilight | $18.99 | 67 77% | 2.0k | $38k (exactly $38,170) | Lumiere Entertainment Inc. | |
 | Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters | $14.99 | 63 80% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,331) | Choice of Games | |
 | Sword Mistress of the Dungeon Town | $17.99 | 38 65% | 1.1k | $21k (exactly $20,509) | ラブリープリチー超愛してる, Lovely Pretty Ultra Lov… (ラブリープリチー超愛してる, Lovely Pretty Ultra Loving You) | |
 | Scarlet Defiance: The Wall Between Us | $14.99 | 42 76% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $18,887) | Vmmersion Studios | |
 | [Redacted] The Safehouse | $3.99 | 137 99% | 4.1k | $16k (exactly $16,399) | Heartbeast |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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