Tag pairdata 30 Sep 2026
Niches / Choose Your Own Adventure / Incremental
Choose Your Own Adventure + Incremental: 30 releases in the last 12 months
There is no price yet: it needs 30 or more indie paid launches in the last four complete quarters. 0 of 38 matured launches earned $100k or more, against 1.5 expected for their price and launch quarter. Releases rose 25% on the year before: 30 against 24.
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 30 24 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 32 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 122 carrying both tags
Boards
as of 30 Sep 2026Where this pair stands on each board of the front page. Every value carries its 90% interval and its sample.
| Board | Value | Interval | Sample | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most anticipatedShare of all upcoming wishlist heat on Steam, with the number of upcoming games beside it. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 5 or more wishlist-ranked upcoming games. | |||
| Launch successLaunches earning $100k or more, against the number expected for their price tier and launch quarter. | 0.67xhits against expected | 0.67x to 1.23x | 38 launchesindie paid launches 31 Mar 2024 to 1 Apr 2026 (6 to 30 months old) | #4,901 of 6,324pairs on this board |
| Fewer new releasesFewer launches relative to players. Historically this did not predict better launches. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 15 or more tracked games and 20 or more releases in each 12-month period. | |||
| Rising demandGaining players faster than same-age games. Descriptive, not a launch signal. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 15 or more tracked games and 1,000 reviews in each window. | |||
Pairs are noisier than genres: the demand boards at pair level are indicative only.
Launch success
launches 6 to 30 months oldMatured indie paid launches that earned an estimated $100k or more, against the number expected for games at the same price tier and launch quarter.
- Launches
- 38
- Hit rate
- 0.0%0.0% to 5.4%
- Expected rate
- 3.9%
- Against expected
- 0.67x0.67x to 1.23x
Launch window: indie paid launches 31 Mar 2024 to 1 Apr 2026 (6 to 30 months old). Hit odds are shrunk toward the Steam-wide rate by 3 expected hits.
Revenue spread
38 launchesEstimated lifetime gross of the same matured launches. Half earned less than the median; one in ten earned more than the top figure.
- Bottom tenth
- $14
- Median
- $485
- Top tenth
- $7,798
Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.
Supply
raw release countsGames released with both tags, last 12 months against the 12 before.
- Change
- +25%
Parent tags
- Choose Your Own AdventureGenre pageRanked on every board, with its best pairs.
- IncrementalGenre pageRanked on every board, with its best pairs.
Comparable games
8 indie titlesThe biggest indie games in this pair by estimated lifetime gross. Revenue is shown as a number at 50 or more reviews, as a range at 10 to 49, and not at all below 10.
- Earth Must Die (opens the Steam store)2026 · 239 reviews, 85% positiveest. $77k
- FEED THE AI (opens the Steam store)2026 · 581 reviews, 90% positiveest. $70k
- Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness (opens the Steam store)2023 · 148 reviews, 97% positiveest. $45k
- Egg Squeeze (opens the Steam store)2024 · 375 reviews, 98% positiveest. $30k
- Time Guard - The Red Menace (opens the Steam store)2025 · 40 reviews, 97% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- Grizzly Man (opens the Steam store)2024 · 52 reviews, 90% positiveest. $9.5k
- Love at The Milky Way Diner (opens the Steam store)2025 · 25 reviews, 100% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- Waiting in the Lime forest (opens the Steam store)2025 · 66 reviews, 68% positiveest. $5.3k
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More with Incremental
pairs with Incremental- Resource Management + Incremental$1,36246 launches priced, 236 releases in 12 months
- Roguelite + Incremental$1,23332 launches priced, 126 releases in 12 months
- Collectathon + Incremental$1,13151 launches priced, 139 releases in 12 months
- Nature + Incremental$99930 launches priced, 50 releases in 12 months
- Incremental + Creature Collector$91664 launches priced, 79 releases in 12 months
- Management + Incremental$81071 launches priced, 241 releases in 12 months
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