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Should I ship a Point & Click Arena Shooter?
Arena Shooter + Point & Click
Only 12 developers shipped a Point & Click Arena Shooter 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, Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 4 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) |
| Top 5% | $125k (exactly $125,431) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 4 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Arena Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Arena Shooter, Point & Click
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 84% positive over 946 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 4 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Arena Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + IncrementalFair
- + DemonsFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Multiple EndingsFair
- + CollectathonLong shot
- + DeckbuildingPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
- + Class-BasedPoor odds
- + Boomer ShooterPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + On-Rails ShooterPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
Comparable games
Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite 2025 · $125k 
Just Click The Button 2024 · $31k 
Pet the Cat 2026 · $23k 
69 Ways to Kill a Zombie 2017 · $10k 
My Darkest Witch 2022 · $4.2k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite | $5.99 | 698 83% | 21k | $125k (exactly $125,431) | RyanJakob | |
| | Just Click The Button | older | $2.99 | 341 90% | 10k | $31k (exactly $30,588) | Simon Eftestol |
| | Pet the Cat | $4.99 | 155 83% | 4.7k | $23k (exactly $23,204) | MEWSTURBO | |
| | 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie | older | $4.99 | 70 64% | 2.1k | $10k (exactly $10,479) | Wadup Games |
| | My Darkest Witch | older | $4.99 | 28 71% | 840 | $4.2k (exactly $4,192) | Fasu Studio |
 | Slime Squisher | $4.99 | 27 77% | 810 | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) | EagleEye Games | |
 | Myasoid | older | $4.99 | 26 88% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | Fasu Studio |
 | Hentai ヘンタイ - C-GUM VACCINATION | older | $7.99 | 11 9% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | Ero Team Triangle |
 | Bow Man | older | $4.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | CnockCnock |
 | Revenge of ILCOIN | older | $9.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | FOCKA GAMES, ILCOIN GAMES |
 | CPU Invaders - Aim Hero | $0.99 | 53 100% | 1.6k | $1.6k (exactly $1,574) | Microblast Games | |
 | Amplexus Protocol | $5.95 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,071) | Nikraria | |
 | Shadow of Juarez | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Shadowline | |
 | Endless Furry Slayer | $0.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | Tegridy Made Games | |
 | Riders | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DC2S | |
 | The Madness of Billiards | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Julián David Rozo Montealegre | |
 | Astro Defender | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | PandaRick |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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