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Should I ship an AI Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Artificial Intelligence
Of 69 developers who shipped an AI Point & Click game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 64 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $510, ×1.1 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $90. Revenue is up 155% on the market; 64 games are announced against 48 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $505 (exactly $505) |
| Top 25% | $4.1k (exactly $4,126) |
| Top 5% | $73k (exactly $72,851) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 69 |
| Released games | 251 |
| Announced | 64 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 155% on the market, supply 90% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Artificial Intelligence
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Point & Click; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Visual Novel, Adventure
- Price point
- $2.99 typical · top 25% priced $8.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Anime, Story Rich
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $8.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 4,170 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 9 in 10 of the 58 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 64 games are announced against 48 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Point & Click with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + JRPGFair
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Party-Based RPGFair
- + Life SimFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + MiningFair
- + CookingFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + Online Co-OpFair
- + Word GameFair
Comparable games
FACEMINER 2025 · $364k 
SIMULACRA 2 2020 · $330k 
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition 2022 · $185k 
Rumu 2017 · $159k 
Hymer 2000 2025 · $154k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | FACEMINER | $7.99 | 1,517 90% | 46k | $364k (exactly $363,625) | Wristwork | |
| | SIMULACRA 2 | older | $7.99 | 1,378 87% | 41k | $330k (exactly $330,307) | Kaigan Games |
| | Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition | older | $9.99 | 617 74% | 19k | $185k (exactly $184,915) | Nightdive Studios, Westwood Studios |
| | Rumu | older | $9.99 | 530 89% | 16k | $159k (exactly $158,841) | Robot House |
| | Hymer 2000 | $4.99 | 1,031 89% | 31k | $154k (exactly $154,341) | doBell | |
 | Mech Builder | older | $9.99 | 507 73% | 15k | $152k (exactly $151,948) | Don Pachi |
 | MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME | older | $9.99 | 388 92% | 12k | $116k (exactly $116,284) | ENIGMA STUDIO |
 | Carpet Cleaning Simulator | $6.99 | 508 87% | 15k | $107k (exactly $106,528) | daimaGAME | |
 | Prominence | older | $19.99 | 126 79% | 3.8k | $76k (exactly $75,562) | Digital Media Workshop |
 | Moviehouse – The Film Studio Tycoon | older | $10.99 | 225 32% | 6.8k | $74k (exactly $74,182) | Odyssey Studios |
 | Centum | $14.99 | 162 77% | 4.9k | $73k (exactly $72,851) | Hack The Publisher | |
 | Umbranomicon | $9.99 | 183 68% | 5.5k | $55k (exactly $54,845) | Pleasure Studio | |
 | Lunar Ascendant | $14.99 | 86 44% | 2.6k | $39k (exactly $38,674) | Darts Games | |
 | 60 Minutes to Extinction: Escape Room | $7.99 | 153 82% | 4.6k | $37k (exactly $36,674) | mc2games | |
 | Tap 4 Sex | $6.99 | 155 72% | 4.7k | $33k (exactly $32,504) | Papalon, DreamBig Games | |
 | Risky Business | $6.90 | 146 73% | 4.4k | $30k (exactly $30,222) | Nouliz | |
 | 执念刑警之消失的证人 | $3.99 | 229 88% | 6.9k | $27k (exactly $27,411) | 迷雾工作室 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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