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Should I ship a Western Multiple Endings game?
Multiple Endings + Western
Only 10 developers shipped a Western Multiple Endings game 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, Bounty Trail, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $17k, ×28 the market median. Revenue is up 125% on the market; 25 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $598 (exactly $598) |
| Top 25% | $1.9k (exactly $1,875) |
| Top 5% | $18k (exactly $17,615) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 125% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Multiple Endings
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Western
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Multiple Endings
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 66% positive over 159 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Weird West: Definitive Edition 2022 · $4.8M 
LIVE A LIVE 2023 · $1.2M 
Star Story: The Horizon Escape 2017 · $47k 
Cave Digger 2 Dig Harder 2022 · $39k 
Cave Digger VR 2018 · $31k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Weird West: Definitive Edition | older | $39.99 | 3,962 77% | 119k | $4.8M (exactly $4,753,211) | WolfEye Studios |
| | LIVE A LIVE | older | $49.99 | 785 85% | 24k | $1.2M (exactly $1,177,264) | Square Enix, historia Inc. |
| | Star Story: The Horizon Escape | older | $14.99 | 104 89% | 3.1k | $47k (exactly $46,769) | EvilCoGames |
| | Cave Digger 2 Dig Harder | older | $15.99 | 81 88% | 2.4k | $39k (exactly $38,856) | VRKiwi |
| | Cave Digger VR | older | $19.90 | 52 65% | 1.6k | $31k (exactly $31,044) | VRKiwi |
 | Cave Digger | older | $14.90 | 63 82% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,161) | VRKiwi |
 | Maelstrom: A Yaoi Visual Novel | older | $15.99 | 44 79% | 1.3k | $21k (exactly $21,107) | Y Press Games, Geiship |
 | The Dawn is Inevitable | · EA older | $6.99 | 91 87% | 2.7k | $19k (exactly $19,083) | Last Spring |
 | Bounty Trail | $6.99 | 84 52% | 2.5k | $18k (exactly $17,615) | September Games | |
 | Dead Man's Rest | older | $11.99 | 48 95% | 1.4k | $17k (exactly $17,266) | Gallium Games |
 | Tower of Madness | $4.99 | 38 89% | 1.1k | $5.7k (exactly $5,689) | J6 Games | |
 | Again!? The Sheriff’s Kinky Justice | $3.29 | 19 52% | 570 | $1.9k (exactly $1,875) | Myriad | |
 | That's My President! | $7.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Kisotik Games | |
 | Checkmate in the Wild West - Chess Adventure | $3.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Grouper Games LLC | |
 | Wild Willy West | $3.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | Team Sloop | |
 | Chasing Cassidy | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Troy Miller, Sam Buckley, Aaron Everson… (Troy Miller, Sam Buckley, Aaron Everson, Sam Yeadon, Aro Lee) | |
 | Atonement | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nexus Media | |
 | The Sunset Land | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Rendara | |
 | BWAG | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Dev-Solo Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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