The niche at a glance

Choose Your Own Adventure on Steam: 6,916 released games, 1,618 in the last 12 months, 3,487 announced and still unreleased. Of the 3,481 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 16 lifetime reviews. 39% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Choose Your Own Adventure is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .

What releases end up with

lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included3,481 releases
p101
p254
median16
p7568
p90252
39% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $7.49 · 11% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
135median 62 · 19% under 10 reviews
2020
341median 36 · 20% under 10 reviews
2021
548median 25 · 28% under 10 reviews
2022
736median 23 · 27% under 10 reviews
2023
884median 25 · 33% under 10 reviews
2024
1,159median 20 · 34% under 10 reviews
2025
1,291median 17 · 38% under 10 reviews
2026
1,367median 11 · 48% under 10 reviews · 491 too fresh

Choose Your Own Adventure × setting: what the pairings end up with

every setting tag shipped with Choose Your Own Adventure at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Choose Your Own Adventure ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Rome10733under 2014.4%
ordinary ×1.4099 d
Anno 117: Pax Romana
Slaves of Rome
Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator
Anno 117: Pax Romana · Slaves of Rome · Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator
Motorbike529under 2013.3%
ordinary ×0.63314 d
Mon Bazou
GIRLS MADE PUDDING
Mon Bazou · GIRLS MADE PUDDING
Naval Combat5237under 2013.3%
ordinary ×0.93246 d
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles
Rise of Piracy
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles · Rise of Piracy
Naval13417under 2013.1%
ordinary ×1.10189 d
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles
Tides of Tomorrow 🌊
Rise of Piracy
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles · Tides of Tomorrow 🌊 · Rise of Piracy
Farming Sim29103017.2% 8%–35%12.9%
ordinary ×0.85322 d
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Song Of The Prairie
To Pixelia
Disney Dreamlight Valley · Song Of The Prairie · To Pixelia
Dinosaurs7123under 2012.3%
ordinary ×0.75609 d
I Wani Hug that Gator!
DDinosaur with Double D's
I Wani Hug that Gator! · DDinosaur with Double D's
Fishing17513under 2011.7%
ordinary ×0.75362 d
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Wild West Legacy
Caravanners
Disney Dreamlight Valley · Wild West Legacy · Caravanners
Cooking43102114.0% 7%–27%11.6%
ordinary ×0.97359 d
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Tavern Keeper 🍻
Kemono Teatime
Disney Dreamlight Valley · Tavern Keeper 🍻 · Kemono Teatime
Trains11424under 2010.7%
ordinary ×0.61553 d
Beholder: Conductor
Frostrain
Beholder: Conductor · Frostrain
Snow13411under 2010.1%
ordinary ×1.09314 d
Mon Bazou
Frostrain
Mon Bazou · Frostrain
Western13217under 2010.1%
ordinary ×0.78797 d
Arco
Wild West Legacy
Arco · Wild West Legacy
Historical144531710.4% 6%–16%10.0%
cliché ×1.56167 d
Anno 117: Pax Romana
Fate/stay night REMASTERED
Hollywood Animal
Anno 117: Pax Romana · Fate/stay night REMASTERED · Hollywood Animal
Transhumanism14514under 209.8%
cliché ×1.53482 d
The Dearest Person
52 / 0 = ∞
The Dearest Person · 52 / 0 = ∞
Dating Sim883270409.6% 8%–12%9.6%
cliché ×5.49143 d
Revenge on gold diggers
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
A Date with Death
Revenge on gold diggers · The NOexistenceN of you AND me · A Date with Death
Farming52152under 209.3%
ordinary ×0.70819 d
Song Of The Prairie
Song Of The Prairie
58 pairings cleared 20 releases; 43 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.6% for games that carry any tags at all.

About these numbers

“Adjusted” is the share pulled towards the catalogue with the weight of twenty releases: the top of any ranked list is optimistic (out of a hundred pairings one will show 35 % on 23 releases by luck alone), and the adjustment is what stops a small lucky group from leading. The band next to the raw share is the 95 % interval. This list is the same for everyone today; the second opinion is the description-based one on Pitch comps.