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Should I ship a Faith Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Faith
Only 18 developers shipped a Faith 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, Marisa!ReturnTheBook!, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.4k, ×3.0 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $270; 1 in 20 cleared $120k, ×265 the market median. Revenue is up 185% on the market; 23 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $267 (exactly $267) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,426) |
| Top 25% | $8.5k (exactly $8,533) |
| Top 5% | $126k (exactly $125,790) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 23 |
| 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 185% on the market, supply 55% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Faith
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Point & Click; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Choices Matter, Exploration
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $11.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Pixel Graphics, 2D, Anime
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $11.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 1,798 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 7 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 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
That Dragon, Cancer 2016 · $410k 
3rd eye 2019 · $138k 
The Mildew Children 2024 · $137k 
Marisa!ReturnTheBook! 2025 · $126k 
Holy Whore Emily 2025 · $65k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | That Dragon, Cancer | older | $9.99 | 1,369 89% | 41k | $410k (exactly $410,289) | Numinous Games |
| | 3rd eye | older | $14.99 | 306 86% | 9.2k | $138k (exactly $137,608) | 3rd eye project |
| | The Mildew Children | older | $9.99 | 458 92% | 14k | $137k (exactly $137,263) | The Growing Stones |
| | Marisa!ReturnTheBook! | $5.99 | 700 90% | 21k | $126k (exactly $125,790) | NARROW, TSUKUYOMIC | |
| | Holy Whore Emily | $11.99 | 182 75% | 5.5k | $65k (exactly $65,465) | Asami | |
 | Daemonologie | $2.99 | 561 92% | 17k | $50k (exactly $50,322) | Katanalevy | |
 | Idle Chapel | $6.99 | 205 78% | 6.2k | $43k (exactly $42,988) | Outer Choir | |
 | The Tales of Bayun | older | $6.99 | 164 74% | 4.9k | $34k (exactly $34,391) | FlyinDogs |
 | Exorcist: Reviewer of Minds | older | $5.99 | 59 96% | 1.8k | $11k (exactly $10,602) | 727 Not Hound |
 | Let It Consume | $4.99 | 57 73% | 1.7k | $8.5k (exactly $8,533) | Ibon Studios | |
 | Where Are You? | $13.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Three Crosses Projects - Jannik Pachal | |
 | The Serpent & The Seed | $3.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $2.0k (exactly $2,035) | Discipleship Tech | |
 | 易经·占卜 | $6.00 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,440) | 三页先生 | |
 | FEEDING YUYUKO | $0.99 | 48 95% | 1.4k | $1.4k (exactly $1,426) | LancerKoi | |
 | The victims of lost sunny days: Eclipse | · EA | $5.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | Sin and Sun |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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