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Should I ship an Idler Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Idler
Of 421 developers who shipped an Idler 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.. 374 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, ×5.0 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $180. Revenue is flat on the market; 374 games are announced against 288 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $597 (exactly $597) |
| Top 25% | $4.1k (exactly $4,126) |
| Top 5% | $88k (exactly $88,126) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 421 |
| Released games | 855 |
| Announced | 374 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 flat on the market, supply 100% 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
- Idler
- effort 1 / 10 · high · number growth curves and a UI
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Point & Click, Idler; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Incremental, Simulation, Resource Management
- Price point
- $2.99 typical · top 25% priced $7.99 or above
- Art
- 5 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 $2.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 40,658 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 9 in 10 of the 199 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 374 games are announced against 288 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Point & Click with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Party-Based RPGFair
- + Life SimFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + MiningFair
- + CookingFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + Online Co-OpFair
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Comparable games
Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story 2025 · $4.4M 
Melvor Idle 2021 · $4.4M 
THE LONGING 2020 · $3.1M 
BitCraft Online 2025 · EA · $1.6M 
Digseum 2024 · $721k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story | $11.99 | 12,215 98% | 366k | $4.4M (exactly $4,393,736) | Nestopi Inc. | |
| | Melvor Idle | older | $9.99 | 14,630 90% | 439k | $4.4M (exactly $4,384,611) | Games by Malcs |
| | THE LONGING | older | $14.99 | 6,977 92% | 209k | $3.1M (exactly $3,137,557) | Studio Seufz |
| | BitCraft Online | · EA | $15.99 | 3,334 72% | 100k | $1.6M (exactly $1,599,320) | Clockwork Laboratories, Inc. |
| | Digseum | $2.99 | 8,033 97% | 241k | $721k (exactly $720,560) | Rat Monthly | |
 | Horripilant | $7.99 | 2,928 92% | 88k | $702k (exactly $701,842) | Alexandre Declos , Pas Game Studio | |
 | Ithya: Magic Studies | $10.99 | 2,103 97% | 63k | $693k (exactly $693,359) | BlueTurtle | |
 | Chill Pulse | older | $4.99 | 4,619 95% | 139k | $691k (exactly $691,464) | Catos Game |
 | Maltese's Fluffy Onsen | $5.99 | 2,727 94% | 82k | $490k (exactly $490,042) | Sinkhole Studio, Moonlab Studio | |
 | Birdwatching Notebook | $9.99 | 1,588 97% | 48k | $476k (exactly $475,924) | Biekka Games | |
 | Click the Button | $3.99 | 3,849 93% | 115k | $461k (exactly $460,725) | LoopCap | |
 | xiuzhen idle | $5.99 | 2,313 79% | 69k | $416k (exactly $415,646) | 游戏养家工作室 | |
 | Fischer's Fishing Journey | $7.99 | 1,568 91% | 47k | $376k (exactly $375,850) | Cutefish |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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