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Should I ship a Military Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Military
Only 16 developers shipped a Military 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, Peach Hills Division, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $120. Revenue is up 490% on the market; 19 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,158) |
| Top 5% | $56k (exactly $56,372) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 19 |
| 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 490% on the market, supply 200% 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.
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Military
- 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
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 196 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Long Dream 2023 · $202k 
Peach Hills Division 2026 · $56k 
Save One More 2018 · $28k 
Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story 2020 · $16k 
It Is Ticking 2023 · $12k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Long Dream | older | $6.99 | 962 98% | 29k | $202k (exactly $201,731) | WildMonkey |
| | Peach Hills Division | $19.99 | 94 56% | 2.8k | $56k (exactly $56,372) | GatoLobo | |
| | Save One More | older | $4.99 | 187 62% | 5.6k | $28k (exactly $27,994) | Stas Shostak |
| | Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story | older | $4.99 | 105 89% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,718) | Gard Interactive |
| | It Is Ticking | older | $6.99 | 59 94% | 1.8k | $12k (exactly $12,372) | YenThe Studio |
 | Gun Maker - pimp my weapon | older | $24.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $6.7k (exactly $6,747) | MIDLANDSTORY Inc. |
 | War Mines: WW2 | older | $3.99 | 43 86% | 1.3k | $5.1k (exactly $5,147) | Wild Pepper Games |
 | Project II: Silent Valley | $6.00 | 26 100% | 780 | $4.7k (exactly $4,680) | GoldenBlade | |
 | Briefcase | $3.99 | 39 100% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | Yuri Antunes | |
 | SEARCH ALL - RUNES | older | $2.99 | 42 92% | 1.3k | $3.8k (exactly $3,767) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Terminal Error | $8.99 | 8 12% | 240 | $2.2k (exactly $2,158) | Endspace Studios | |
 | Guard Protocol | $4.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Dincicode | |
 | Frontiers Reach : Battlespace | · EA | $7.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Blind Alien Productions |
 | Zombocalypse Now! | $10.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $989 (exactly $989) | Pixel Drip Games | |
 | Epic Naval Battle Simulator | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | ENBS Dev team | |
 | Clicker Arsenal | $1.99 | 7 42% | 210 | $418 (exactly $418) | Zzz Idle Games | |
 | Balkan Bloodbath | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Michael Richard Lannon |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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