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Should I ship a Fishing Point & Click game?
Fishing + Point & Click
Of 29 developers who shipped a Fishing 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.. 38 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $960, ×2.0 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $81k, ×171 the market median. Revenue is up 855% on the market; 38 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $958 (exactly $958) |
| Top 25% | $6.8k (exactly $6,753) |
| Top 5% | $81k (exactly $81,224) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 29 |
| Released games | 55 |
| Announced | 38 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 855% on the market, supply 25% 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.
- Fishing
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Fishing, Point & Click; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Resource Management, Adventure, Idler
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $7.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Relaxing, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $7.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 3,622 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 19 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 38 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fishing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FarmingFair
- + AutomationFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
- + AgriculturePoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Melvor Idle 2021 · $4.4M 
Fischer's Fishing Journey 2025 · $376k 
myPOPGOES 2024 · $113k 
Lure Of Passion 2026 · $81k 
Don't Sleep With The Fishes 2026 · $47k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Melvor Idle | older | $9.99 | 14,630 90% | 439k | $4.4M (exactly $4,384,611) | Games by Malcs |
| | Fischer's Fishing Journey | $7.99 | 1,568 91% | 47k | $376k (exactly $375,850) | Cutefish | |
| | myPOPGOES | older | $4.99 | 752 86% | 23k | $113k (exactly $112,574) | Kane Carter |
| | Lure Of Passion | $5.99 | 452 89% | 14k | $81k (exactly $81,224) | Snakerser's Games | |
| | Don't Sleep With The Fishes | $1.99 | 782 95% | 23k | $47k (exactly $46,685) | Taiki | |
 | Crabmeat | $7.99 | 181 86% | 5.4k | $43k (exactly $43,386) | Nicholas McDonnell, Mitchell Pasmans | |
 | Mango's Fisharium | $2.99 | 298 81% | 8.9k | $27k (exactly $26,731) | Evrac Studio | |
 | Fish to Cats: Catch & Feed | $2.99 | 193 83% | 5.8k | $17k (exactly $17,312) | Kygua Tech | |
 | 100 hidden turtles | older | $0.99 | 462 95% | 14k | $14k (exactly $13,721) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh |
 | The Peak of Life | $8.99 | 30 66% | 900 | $8.1k (exactly $8,091) | XY Game | |
 | Incremental Fishing | $5.49 | 41 97% | 1.2k | $6.8k (exactly $6,753) | SwimDog Studio | |
 | Skulker | $9.99 | 21 80% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Krow Game | |
 | Fisher Idle | $1.99 | 56 60% | 1.7k | $3.3k (exactly $3,343) | Bahamut Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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