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Should I ship a Dinosaur Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Dinosaurs
Only 6 developers shipped a Dinosaur 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, Dinocop, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.3k, ×5.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $60; 1 in 20 cleared $330k, ×528 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 11 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 25% | $53k (exactly $52,995) |
| Top 5% | $331k (exactly $331,429) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Dinosaurs
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Point & Click
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $17.49 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 4,343 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 11 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 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
Goodbye Volcano High 2023 · $1.5M 
Dinocop 2025 · $331k 
Dynopunk 2023 · $205k 
Fossil Corner 2021 · $99k 
Zniw Adventure 2020 · $74k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Goodbye Volcano High | older | $29.99 | 1,676 89% | 50k | $1.5M (exactly $1,507,897) | KO_OP |
| | Dinocop | $14.99 | 737 96% | 22k | $331k (exactly $331,429) | Pieces Games | |
| | Dynopunk | older | $14.99 | 456 93% | 14k | $205k (exactly $205,063) | Tomato Fantasy Games |
| | Fossil Corner | older | $9.99 | 330 98% | 9.9k | $99k (exactly $98,901) | Brady Soglin |
| | Zniw Adventure | older | $8.99 | 273 99% | 8.2k | $74k (exactly $73,628) | Azure Mountain |
 | Theropods | $17.49 | 101 89% | 3.0k | $53k (exactly $52,995) | Lost Token | |
 | Lost Eden | older | $9.99 | 94 94% | 2.8k | $28k (exactly $28,172) | Cryo Interactive |
 | Cats and Seek: Dino Park | older | $1.99 | 226 99% | 6.8k | $13k (exactly $13,492) | Noobzilla |
 | 100 hidden cups | older | $0.99 | 431 42% | 13k | $13k (exactly $12,801) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Igor Shalimov |
 | DayD: Through time. Jurassic Rush | older | $14.99 | 19 47% | 570 | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) | UniBit, Creobit |
 | Dinosaur Adventure 3-D (1999 Version) | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Knowledge Adventure, Wanderful Edutainm… (Knowledge Adventure, Wanderful Edutainment, Jordan Freeman Group) | |
 | Dino & Chill | $0.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | BarStuds Studios | |
 | SEARCH ALL - ARROWS | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich | |
 | Museum of Lost Dinosaurs | $29.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Museum of Lost Dinosaurs Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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