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Should I ship a Cat Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Cats
Of 187 developers who shipped a Cat 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.. 183 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×10 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $450. Revenue is up 30% on the market; 183 games are announced against 116 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,247) |
| Top 25% | $6.2k (exactly $6,189) |
| Top 5% | $172k (exactly $172,454) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 187 |
| Released games | 684 |
| Announced | 183 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $1.99 |
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 30% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- Cats
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Point & Click; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Puzzle, Hidden Object, Adventure
- Price point
- $1.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cute, Relaxing, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $1.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 15,588 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 213 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 183 games are announced against 116 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
A Little to the Left 2022 · $7.6M 
Strange Horticulture 2022 · $7.1M 
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 2023 · $5.8M 
Blacksad: Under the Skin 2019 · $3.2M 
Beat Cop 2017 · $2.2M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | A Little to the Left | older | $14.99 | 16,885 91% | 507k | $7.6M (exactly $7,593,184) | Max Inferno |
| | Strange Horticulture | older | $15.99 | 14,867 94% | 446k | $7.1M (exactly $7,131,700) | Bad Viking |
| | Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective | older | $29.99 | 6,429 97% | 193k | $5.8M (exactly $5,784,171) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | Blacksad: Under the Skin | older | $19.99 | 5,356 83% | 161k | $3.2M (exactly $3,211,993) | Pendulo Studios, YS Interactive |
| | Beat Cop | older | $14.99 | 4,841 81% | 145k | $2.2M (exactly $2,176,998) | Pixel Crow |
 | Tales of the Neon Sea | older | $16.99 | 3,853 84% | 116k | $2.0M (exactly $1,963,874) | YiTi Games |
 | Strange Antiquities | $17.99 | 3,288 95% | 99k | $1.8M (exactly $1,774,534) | Bad Viking | |
 | The Cat Lady | older | $8.99 | 4,802 93% | 144k | $1.3M (exactly $1,295,099) | Harvester Games |
 | Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure | older | $19.99 | 2,089 89% | 63k | $1.3M (exactly $1,252,773) | Stuck In Attic |
 | Chicken Police - Paint it RED! | older | $19.99 | 1,624 94% | 49k | $974k (exactly $973,913) | The Wild Gentlemen |
 | Maltese's Fluffy Onsen | $5.99 | 2,727 94% | 82k | $490k (exactly $490,042) | Sinkhole Studio, Moonlab Studio | |
 | Organized Inside | $7.99 | 2,024 94% | 61k | $485k (exactly $485,153) | Meox Studio | |
 | Find Matt's Cats | $19.99 | 719 98% | 22k | $431k (exactly $431,184) | Matt Roszak | |
 | Fischer's Fishing Journey | $7.99 | 1,568 91% | 47k | $376k (exactly $375,850) | Cutefish | |
 | Cats & Cups | $9.99 | 1,047 89% | 31k | $314k (exactly $313,786) | Rogue Duck Interactive | |
 | A Building Full of Cats 2 | $6.99 | 1,145 97% | 34k | $240k (exactly $240,106) | Devcats | |
 | Urban Jungle | $11.99 | 667 90% | 20k | $240k (exactly $239,920) | KYLYK | |
 | HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM | $3.99 | 1,936 97% | 58k | $232k (exactly $231,739) | Stone | |
 | The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure | $13.99 | 467 97% | 14k | $196k (exactly $196,000) | The Wonder Room |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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