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Should I ship a WWII Interactive Fiction?
Interactive Fiction + World War II
Only 9 developers shipped a WWII 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, TR-49, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×4.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $7.1k against a market of $630. 13 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $446 (exactly $446) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) |
| Top 25% | $14k (exactly $14,024) |
| Top 5% | $251k (exactly $251,011) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 2420% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, 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
- World War II
- 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
- 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 93% positive over 6,004 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Bishojo Mangekyo Kotowari to Meikyu no Shojo 2021 · $2.4M 
Gerda: A Flame in Winter 2022 · $299k 
TR-49 2026 · $251k 
Attentat 1942 2017 · $148k 
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures 2009 · $141k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bishojo Mangekyo Kotowari to Meikyu no Shojo | older | $29.99 | 2,718 95% | 82k | $2.4M (exactly $2,445,385) | ωstar, Seikei Production |
| | Gerda: A Flame in Winter | older | $19.99 | 498 94% | 15k | $299k (exactly $298,651) | BirdIsland/PortaPlay |
| | TR-49 | $6.99 | 1,197 94% | 36k | $251k (exactly $251,011) | inkle Ltd | |
| | Attentat 1942 | older | $10.99 | 448 92% | 13k | $148k (exactly $147,706) | Charles Games |
| | Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures | older | $14.99 | 314 89% | 9.4k | $141k (exactly $141,206) | Telltale |
 | A Foreign World | $19.99 | 167 84% | 5.0k | $100k (exactly $100,150) | HighbornTiger | |
 | Over the Alps | older | $7.99 | 230 87% | 6.9k | $55k (exactly $55,131) | Stave Studios |
 | SEX with HITLER 3D | older | $6.99 | 227 85% | 6.8k | $48k (exactly $47,602) | H Studio |
 | Reimu Needs Help!? Aunn-chan to the Rescue! | older | $6.99 | 157 96% | 4.7k | $33k (exactly $32,923) | ISY |
 | Encoded War | older | $11.99 | 48 77% | 1.4k | $17k (exactly $17,266) | Somnolent Team |
 | Grizzly Man | $8.99 | 52 90% | 1.6k | $14k (exactly $14,024) | LCB Game Studio | |
 | Grief like a stray dog | $4.99 | 89 98% | 2.7k | $13k (exactly $13,323) | Rayonist | |
 | Sinking The Boats | $6.99 | 34 94% | 1.0k | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) | 孟夏Mengxia | |
 | Get In Get Out | $3.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | Wessi | |
 | 谍影：余烬 | $0.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $446 (exactly $446) | 咕噜狗 | |
 | Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Asterism Games | |
 | Lexis | $49.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lexis |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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