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Should I ship a Point & Click Cooking game?
Cooking + Point & Click
Of 68 developers who shipped a Point & Click Cooking 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.. 79 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×3.8 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $360. Revenue is up 170% on the market; 79 games are announced against 45 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $11,661) |
| Top 5% | $132k (exactly $131,868) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 68 |
| Released games | 139 |
| Announced | 79 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 170% on the market, supply 90% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Cooking
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- 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
- Cooking, Point & Click; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Management
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Cute, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 4,232 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 7 in 10 of the 34 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 79 games are announced against 45 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Cooking with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Turn-Based CombatFair
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- + Score AttackFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + PuzzleFair
- + Artificial IntelligencePoor odds
- + JRPGPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
Comparable games
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town 2024 · $753k 
Coffee Shop Tycoon 2022 · $166k 
Bento Blocks 2026 · $165k 
Betrayal At Club Low 2022 · $161k 
Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy 2010 · $151k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town | $29.99 | 837 95% | 25k | $753k (exactly $753,049) | h.a.n.d., Inc. | |
| | Coffee Shop Tycoon | older | $9.99 | 553 84% | 17k | $166k (exactly $165,734) | Riff Studios |
| | Bento Blocks | $14.99 | 367 97% | 11k | $165k (exactly $165,040) | SOMETIMES LIMITED | |
| | Betrayal At Club Low | older | $9.99 | 538 97% | 16k | $161k (exactly $161,239) | Cosmo D Studios |
| | Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy | older | $14.99 | 335 90% | 10k | $151k (exactly $150,650) | HeR Interactive |
 | Midori no Kaori | $9.99 | 464 94% | 14k | $139k (exactly $139,061) | TheLaba | |
 | Wasteland Bites | $9.99 | 440 93% | 13k | $132k (exactly $131,868) | CosmicDev | |
 | Ugoku Sushi Bar | $12.99 | 316 88% | 9.5k | $123k (exactly $123,145) | Rogue Duck Interactive | |
 | Burger Shop 3 | · EA older | $4.99 | 602 99% | 18k | $90k (exactly $90,119) | GoBit Games |
 | Little Chef: Cozy Cooking | $7.99 | 308 95% | 9.2k | $74k (exactly $73,828) | Julien Truebiger, Erika Zakse, Danny va… (Julien Truebiger, Erika Zakse, Danny van Duist) | |
 | UMAMI | $13.99 | 153 98% | 4.6k | $64k (exactly $64,214) | Mimmox | |
 | SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off | $14.99 | 119 61% | 3.6k | $54k (exactly $53,514) | Entalto Studios | |
 | The Supper: New Blood | $9.99 | 120 88% | 3.6k | $36k (exactly $35,964) | White Blanket Games | |
 | Sandboxels | $0.99 | 1,108 94% | 33k | $33k (exactly $32,908) | R74n |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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