Should I ship a PvE Trivia game?
PvE + Trivia
Only 9 developers shipped a PvE Trivia 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, Trivia Tricks, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150 in the last 2 years and $270 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $148 (exactly $148) |
| Top 25% | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 5% | $99k (exactly $98,934) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- PvE, Trivia
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 822 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 7 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
PvE with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + IdlerFair
- + MinigamesFair
- + TypingFair
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + HeistPoor odds
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + NavalPoor odds
- + SpaceshipsPoor odds
- + MarsPoor odds
Comparable games
Trivia Tricks 2024 · $99k 
What The Dub?! 2021 · $93k 
Papa's Quiz 2020 · $47k 
Gefragt Gejagt - Das Spiel 2021 · $16k 
Schlag den Star - Das 3. Spiel 2023 · $9.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Trivia Tricks | $14.99 | 220 93% | 6.6k | $99k (exactly $98,934) | 3-Tricks | |
| | What The Dub?! | older | $7.99 | 386 91% | 12k | $93k (exactly $92,524) | Wide Right Interactive, Mark Zorn, Kurt… (Wide Right Interactive, Mark Zorn, Kurt Wojda) |
| | Papa's Quiz | older | $12.99 | 120 90% | 3.6k | $47k (exactly $46,764) | Old Apes |
| | Gefragt Gejagt - Das Spiel | older | $34.99 | 15 40% | 450 | $16k (exactly $15,746) | Beatshapers Ltd. |
| | Schlag den Star - Das 3. Spiel | older | $29.99 | 11 9% | 330 | $9.9k (exactly $9,897) | Twigames Inc. |
 | みんなでクイズ ラビィとふしぎな惑星 | older | $6.99 | 20 100% | 600 | $4.2k (exactly $4,194) | LabyLab |
 | I Know Everything | older | $3.99 | 20 80% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | NLB project |
 | Play Together: Party Games | $14.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) | Plot Interactive | |
 | Shuzzler: The Word Game | older | $13.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.3k (exactly $1,259) | DC Creation Studios |
 | Try To Reach 10 | older | $0.99 | 22 72% | 660 | $653 (exactly $653) | 23:23 Team |
 | Meanings hidden in plain sight | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | bmbchp | |
 | Russian Quest | $0.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | Reanim Games | |
 | Golden Lies | $4.95 | 1 100% | 30 | $148 (exactly $148) | cat_vision | |
 | Fate Machine | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Gin Drinkers Studio | |
 | KatsuobushiClicker | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | AshimaruGames | |
 | Academy of Samsara | $12.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Karmic Loop Studios | |
 | Answer For Glory | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Glory Forge Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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