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Should I ship a Point & Click Card Battler?
Card Battler + Point & Click
Of 25 developers who shipped a Point & Click Card Battler 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.. 34 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $630, ×1.3 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $240. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 34 games are announced against 17 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $629 (exactly $629) |
| Top 25% | $27k (exactly $27,395) |
| Top 5% | $108k (exactly $107,946) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 25 |
| Released games | 65 |
| Announced | 34 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 down 25% on the market, supply 115% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Card Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · card rules plus simple encounter logic
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Card Battler, Point & Click; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Card Game, Deckbuilding
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Colorful, Story Rich
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 3,244 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 6 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 34 games are announced against 17 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Card Battler with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Party GameFair
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Skogdal 2025 · $67k 
Love of Magic Book 2: The War 2022 · $59k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Inscryption | older | $19.99 | 135,017 96% | 4.1M | $81M (exactly $80,969,695) | Daniel Mullins Games |
| | Forbidden Solitaire | $15.99 | 2,245 96% | 67k | $1.1M (exactly $1,076,926) | Grey Alien Games, Night Signal Entertai… (Grey Alien Games, Night Signal Entertainment) | |
| | Sinners Landing | $19.99 | 180 86% | 5.4k | $108k (exactly $107,946) | Flexible Media | |
| | Skogdal | $19.99 | 112 98% | 3.4k | $67k (exactly $67,166) | Erlend Kirkeboe, Kay Arne Kirkeboe | |
| | Love of Magic Book 2: The War | older | $14.99 | 132 93% | 4.0k | $59k (exactly $59,360) | Droid Productions |
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 | The Foretold: Westmark Legacy | older | $19.99 | 61 50% | 1.8k | $37k (exactly $36,582) | Nodbrim Interactive |
 | Love of Magic Book 3: The Return | older | $14.99 | 80 88% | 2.4k | $36k (exactly $35,976) | Droid Productions |
 | Dead Finger Dice | $4.99 | 230 78% | 6.9k | $34k (exactly $34,431) | Rocket Adrift Games | |
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 | Little Witch Inuko | $9.99 | 42 83% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $12,587) | Flamme Soft | |
 | Sinners Landing: Bane of Passion | · EA | $14.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | Flexible Media |
 | The Midnight Crimes | $10.99 | 20 60% | 600 | $6.6k (exactly $6,594) | DeadlyCrow Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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