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Should I ship a Point & Click Looter Shooter?
Looter Shooter + Point & Click
Only 11 developers shipped a Point & Click Looter Shooter 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, Pet the Cat, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 5 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $59 in the last 2 years and $120 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build. 8 developers shipped in the last year and 5 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $59 (exactly $59) |
| Top 25% | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 5% | $23k (exactly $23,204) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 5 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 up 445% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Looter Shooter
- effort 8 / 10 · low · online co-op and a loot economy on top of a shooter
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Looter Shooter, Point & Click
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 85% positive over 276 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 5 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Looter Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + MechsFair
- + Vehicular CombatFair
- + IdlerFair
- + 3D PlatformerLong shot
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Twin Stick ShooterPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
Comparable games
miniBONG 2023 · $264k 
Pet the Cat 2026 · $23k 
EON Fighter 2023 · $17k 
Farming Incremental But With Guns 2026 · $14k 
Infernal Wave 2023 · EA · $629 | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | miniBONG | older | $9.99 | 881 79% | 26k | $264k (exactly $264,036) | Game Star |
| | Pet the Cat | $4.99 | 155 83% | 4.7k | $23k (exactly $23,204) | MEWSTURBO | |
| | EON Fighter | older | $5.99 | 97 88% | 2.9k | $17k (exactly $17,431) | Square Wheel |
| | Farming Incremental But With Guns | $3.99 | 113 88% | 3.4k | $14k (exactly $13,526) | Clementine Wolf Games | |
| | Infernal Wave | · EA older | $6.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Veriluxa |
 | Pew Pew Squad | · EA older | $2.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Daniciti |
 | Jelly Party: Fire | older | $1.99 | 7 42% | 210 | $418 (exactly $418) | Jelly Studio |
 | Shadow of Juarez | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Shadowline | |
 | DeadEye: A Roguelike Shooter | · EA | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | AliceCatto |
 | Born as a Pirate | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Tzjr Games | |
 | DRAG IT | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | DOOR EONPAN | |
 | Abrez | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Suss… (Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Sussanne Beaujeu, T.Beaujeu) | |
 | BiuBiu | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | GameFox | |
 | BlassHole | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nonyx Games | |
 | HKO: Advanced Survival | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | All4Ware |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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