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Should I ship a Point & Click 2D Fighter?
2D Fighter + Point & Click
Only 15 developers shipped a Point & Click 2D Fighter 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, Valkeala Birds, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $240 (exactly $240) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 200% on the market, supply 15% fewer 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.
- 2D Fighter
- effort 5 / 10 · low · frame-precise animation and rollback netcode
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 2D Fighter, Point & Click
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 93 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. All of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
2D Fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Sift Heads Legendary Pack 2024 · $13k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| | Slime Dungeon | · EA older | $29.99 | 36 77% | 1.1k | $32k (exactly $32,389) | Irinkutor |
| | Bad Cat | older | $9.99 | 68 83% | 2.0k | $20k (exactly $20,380) | FastGame, VICTORIA Games |
| | Sift Heads Cartels | older | $5.99 | 79 87% | 2.4k | $14k (exactly $14,196) | Pyrozen |
| | Sift Heads Legendary Pack | older | $5.99 | 70 65% | 2.1k | $13k (exactly $12,579) | Pyrozen |
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 | GasZilla | older | $4.99 | 23 91% | 690 | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) | SUJIKO Media Group |
 | Valkeala Birds | $2.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) | Valkeala Software, Tero Lunkka | |
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 | The Fallen Kingdom | $1.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $298 (exactly $298) | Lucas Baldi Aragão | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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