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Should I ship a Loot Point & Click game?
Loot + Point & Click
Of 44 developers who shipped a Loot 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.. 50 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.1 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $240. Revenue is up 350% on the market; 50 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $716 (exactly $716) |
| Top 25% | $6.4k (exactly $6,437) |
| Top 5% | $81k (exactly $81,219) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 44 |
| Released games | 130 |
| Announced | 50 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.25 |
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 350% on the market, supply 240% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Loot
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Loot, Point & Click; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Idler, Incremental, RPG
- Price point
- $4.25 typical · top 25% priced $8.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Relaxing
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $8.99 or above; the middle game at $4.25.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 2,221 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 9 in 10 of the 14 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 50 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Loot with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Artificial IntelligenceStrong odds
- + Local Co-OpStrong odds
- + SteampunkStrong odds
- + CapitalismFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + JRPGFair
- + EconomyFair
- + IdlerFair
- + CatsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Creature CollectorFair
- + CollectathonFair
Comparable games
Hellslave 2022 · $422k 
miniBONG 2023 · $264k 
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Smash Hit Museum 2025 · $106k 
Treasure Beach 2026 · $81k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hellslave | older | $19.99 | 703 82% | 21k | $422k (exactly $421,589) | Ars Goetia |
| | miniBONG | older | $9.99 | 881 79% | 26k | $264k (exactly $264,036) | Game Star |
| | Desktop Raid | $8.99 | 672 76% | 20k | $181k (exactly $181,238) | Lee_Studio | |
| | Smash Hit Museum | $6.99 | 507 85% | 15k | $106k (exactly $106,318) | InIt Games | |
| | Treasure Beach | $9.99 | 271 81% | 8.1k | $81k (exactly $81,219) | Rogue Duck Interactive | |
 | Tower Walker: MMO Grind Simulator | older | $9.99 | 270 77% | 8.1k | $81k (exactly $80,919) | Raptor Claw Games, Millendream |
 | Legends of Wasteland | $6.99 | 320 62% | 9.6k | $67k (exactly $67,104) | 清友工作室 | |
 | Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning | older | $4.99 | 322 84% | 9.7k | $48k (exactly $48,203) | Entertainment Forge |
 | I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling | older | $0.99 | 1,542 91% | 46k | $46k (exactly $45,797) | Mutant Entertainment Studios |
 | Tap Heroes | older | $2.99 | 402 67% | 12k | $36k (exactly $36,059) | VaragtP |
 | Idle Land of Exile | $4.99 | 239 68% | 7.2k | $36k (exactly $35,778) | 所以然 | |
 | RigidGems Museum | $24.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $19k (exactly $18,742) | FerioWorks | |
 | Immortal IDLE | · EA | $5.99 | 78 64% | 2.3k | $14k (exactly $14,017) | 伯乐Couple |
 | Cozy Mining | $6.99 | 38 76% | 1.1k | $8.0k (exactly $7,969) | tatsumaki games | |
 | Fractured Realms | · EA | $8.99 | 27 77% | 810 | $7.3k (exactly $7,282) | Mistcloud Games |
 | Mosaica: Arboreal | $4.99 | 44 81% | 1.3k | $6.6k (exactly $6,587) | RymPow |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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