Games › Point & Click › Point & Click + Horses
Should I ship a Horse Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Horses
Only 7 developers shipped a Horse 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, Tap Derby: Horse Racing, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.4k against a market of $630. 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,800) |
| Top 5% | $5.4k (exactly $5,389) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 75% on the market, supply 25% fewer 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
- Horses
- 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
- $4.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 591 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 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
Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch 2017 · $65k 
Riding Star - Horse Championship! 2014 · $31k 
Curt Maddox 2023 · $8.2k 
SEARCH ALL - ANIMALS 2021 · $7.8k 
Pet Vet 3D Animal Hospital 2022 · $7.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch | older | $9.99 | 217 88% | 6.5k | $65k (exactly $65,035) | HeR Interactive |
| | Riding Star - Horse Championship! | older | $9.99 | 102 69% | 3.1k | $31k (exactly $30,569) | Sproing |
| | Curt Maddox | older | $7.99 | 34 85% | 1.0k | $8.2k (exactly $8,150) | Lesson of Passion |
| | SEARCH ALL - ANIMALS | older | $2.99 | 87 73% | 2.6k | $7.8k (exactly $7,804) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | Pet Vet 3D Animal Hospital | older | $11.99 | 21 61% | 630 | $7.6k (exactly $7,554) | BrainGame |
 | Cow Life Sim RPG | older | $4.99 | 42 95% | 1.3k | $6.3k (exactly $6,287) | Pajama Bee Entertainment |
 | Tap Derby: Horse Racing | $4.99 | 36 91% | 1.1k | $5.4k (exactly $5,389) | Frost Warrior Studios | |
 | Pet Vet 3D Wild Animal Hospital | older | $11.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $4.0k (exactly $3,957) | Braingame |
 | Unicorn and Sweets 2 | older | $9.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Stas Paty9mkin |
 | I commissioned some unicorns | older | $3.99 | 29 100% | 870 | $3.5k (exactly $3,471) | Follow the fun |
 | Bo Le Judging Horses | $59.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $1.8k (exactly $1,800) | SUNYU Games | |
 | Morse vs. Horse | $4.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Company with your friends | |
 | Home Rescue: Clean and Restore Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Avi Games | |
 | Animal Pattern | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Neblyn | |
 | Farmyard Pals Jigsaw Puzzles | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Boogygames Studios | |
 | Horsin' Around | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Catinator T-800 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.