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Should I ship a Cold-War Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Cold War
Only 7 developers shipped a Cold-War Point & Click game 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, 60 Minutes to Extinction: Escape Room, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $7.0k, ×11 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $3.8k; 1 in 20 cleared $36k, ×58 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $3.8k (exactly $3,774) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) |
| Top 25% | $24k (exactly $24,465) |
| Top 5% | $37k (exactly $36,674) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 500% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 22%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Cold War
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Point & Click
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 6,658 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.8k. 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
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
60 Parsecs! 2018 · $992k 
South of the Circle 2022 · $524k 
1979 Revolution: Black Friday 2016 · $306k 
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love 2019 · $237k 
Orwell's Animal Farm 2020 · $45k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 60 Parsecs! | older | $9.99 | 3,310 90% | 99k | $992k (exactly $992,007) | Robot Gentleman |
| | South of the Circle | older | $12.99 | 1,345 83% | 40k | $524k (exactly $524,146) | State of Play |
| | 1979 Revolution: Black Friday | older | $9.99 | 1,021 76% | 31k | $306k (exactly $305,994) | iNK Stories, N-Fusion Interactive |
| | Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love | older | $19.99 | 396 86% | 12k | $237k (exactly $237,481) | Artifex Mundi |
| | Orwell's Animal Farm | older | $9.99 | 150 75% | 4.5k | $45k (exactly $44,955) | Nerial |
 | 60 Minutes to Extinction: Escape Room | $7.99 | 153 82% | 4.6k | $37k (exactly $36,674) | mc2games | |
 | Jey's Empire | older | $14.99 | 68 85% | 2.0k | $31k (exactly $30,580) | Maestro Cinetik |
 | Playing History - The Plague | older | $9.99 | 95 76% | 2.9k | $28k (exactly $28,472) | Serious Games Interactive |
 | Neoproxima | older | $12.99 | 69 97% | 2.1k | $27k (exactly $26,889) | Lonestone Studio |
 | What Awaits, Aleksey? | $15.99 | 51 86% | 1.5k | $24k (exactly $24,465) | JKBC | |
 | Rise of Atom | $19.99 | 29 79% | 870 | $17k (exactly $17,391) | Glass Bubble Software | |
 | Project Looking Glass | $4.99 | 47 100% | 1.4k | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) | MORPH | |
 | Your letter has been rejected. | $5.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $3.8k (exactly $3,774) | MONAZ. | |
 | The Syndicate: Classified Operations | $4.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | A and I Software | |
 | Nothing Remarkable Today | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Constanteer Interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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