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Should I ship an Investigation Solitaire game?
Investigation + Solitaire
Only 11 developers shipped an Investigation Solitaire 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, Occlude, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced, ×10.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $240 against a market of $480. 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) |
| Top 5% | $83k (exactly $83,416) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 90% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Investigation
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Solitaire
- effort 1 / 10 · high · fixed rules, cards and a table
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Investigation, Solitaire
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 416 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 9 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×10.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Investigation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Escape RoomFair
- + IdlerFair
- + TriviaLong shot
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + JRPGPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + GothicPoor odds
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + Card GamePoor odds
- + SciencePoor odds
Comparable games
The Solitaire Conspiracy 2020 · $267k 
Tested on Humans: Escape Room 2021 · $130k 
Occlude 2025 · $83k 
Myha: Return to the Lost Island 2019 · $20k 
Find Me: Horror Game 2020 · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Solitaire Conspiracy | older | $11.99 | 742 89% | 22k | $267k (exactly $266,897) | Bithell Games |
| | Tested on Humans: Escape Room | older | $9.99 | 434 87% | 13k | $130k (exactly $130,070) | mc2games |
| | Occlude | $7.99 | 348 86% | 10k | $83k (exactly $83,416) | Tributary Games | |
| | Myha: Return to the Lost Island | older | $14.99 | 45 75% | 1.4k | $20k (exactly $20,236) | Denis Martin, Simon Says: Play! |
| | Find Me: Horror Game | older | $11.99 | 31 48% | 930 | $11k (exactly $11,151) | KalaOh Games |
 | SherloCAT Holmes Nonogram | $4.99 | 44 81% | 1.3k | $6.6k (exactly $6,587) | LUDO Thinking | |
 | Dracula Frames | older | $3.99 | 34 91% | 1.0k | $4.1k (exactly $4,070) | Caio Flavio |
 | Detective notes. Lighthouse Mystery Solitaire | older | $6.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | DigiMight |
 | SudoKube | older | $1.99 | 48 79% | 1.4k | $2.9k (exactly $2,866) | Mandinga |
 | Detective Solitaire. Butler Story 2 | older | $14.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Melon Games |
 | Aeternum Grand Plaza | $7.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | BD STUDIO | |
 | Find The Flaw | $4.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | XSGames | |
 | The Room in a Glass Box | $3.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | XSGames | |
 | Solitaire of Stygian Shadows | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Māris Ozols | |
 | DOCE | $3.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | SAHKIL STUDIO | |
 | Crowley Hotel. The JH Chronicles | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Bern.C | |
 | O Monumento | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Allun | |
 | Mnemocyne complex | · EA | $3.80 | 1 100% | 30 | $114 (exactly $114) | Jesking |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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