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Should I ship a Western Visual Novel?
Visual Novel + Western
Only 8 developers shipped a Western Visual Novel 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, WANTED: Wild Sluts 🔞, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $9.7k against a market of $630. 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $598 (exactly $598) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.7k (exactly $9,712) |
| Top 25% | $38k (exactly $38,224) |
| Top 5% | $63k (exactly $62,958) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 16 |
| 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 up 3560% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Visual Novel
- effort 2 / 10 · high · script, choices and static art
- Western
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Visual Novel
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $9.99.
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 7,078 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Visual Novel with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVStrong odds
- + City BuilderStrong odds
- + MusicStrong odds
- + TrainsStrong odds
- + Souls-likeFair
- + MinigamesFair
- + RhythmFair
- + JRPGFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + SwordplayFair
- + GamblingFair
- + DiplomacyFair
Comparable games
Wild West Legacy 2024 · $1.4M 
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine 2018 · $855k 
West Sweety 2019 · $193k 
Deadrock Redemption 2024 · $94k 
WANTED: Wild Sluts 🔞 2026 · $63k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Wild West Legacy | older | $26.99 | 1,706 39% | 51k | $1.4M (exactly $1,381,348) | Moon Punch Studio |
| | Where the Water Tastes Like Wine | older | $19.99 | 1,425 76% | 43k | $855k (exactly $854,572) | Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge |
| | West Sweety | older | $1.99 | 3,227 83% | 97k | $193k (exactly $192,652) | AFOG |
| | Deadrock Redemption | older | $14.99 | 208 60% | 6.2k | $94k (exactly $93,538) | Entropy Digital Entertainment |
| | WANTED: Wild Sluts 🔞 | $14.99 | 140 68% | 4.2k | $63k (exactly $62,958) | Lewd Star | |
 | Star Story: The Horizon Escape | older | $14.99 | 104 89% | 3.1k | $47k (exactly $46,769) | EvilCoGames |
 | Once a Porn a Time: Porn and Cards | $14.99 | 85 72% | 2.6k | $38k (exactly $38,224) | OPT Studio | |
 | 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 |
 | Dead Man's Rest | older | $11.99 | 48 95% | 1.4k | $17k (exactly $17,266) | Gallium Games |
 | Deadrock Salvation | $9.99 | 38 86% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $11,389) | Ghost Machine | |
 | Brooks in Wild West | $11.99 | 27 74% | 810 | $9.7k (exactly $9,712) | PiggyNose Games | |
 | Again!? The Sheriff’s Kinky Justice | $3.29 | 19 52% | 570 | $1.9k (exactly $1,875) | Myriad | |
 | Transcontinental | $3.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | ComePlay Games | |
 | The Shadows of Dry Creek | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Pascal Ragaigne | |
 | Atonement | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nexus Media |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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