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Should I ship a Music Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Music
Only 19 developers shipped a Music 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, Ithya: Magic Studies, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.3k, ×4.9 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $690k, ×1460 the market median. Revenue is up 115% on the market; 20 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.3k (exactly $2,338) |
| Top 25% | $5.9k (exactly $5,872) |
| Top 5% | $693k (exactly $693,359) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 119 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 115% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Music
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Point & Click; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Creature Collector, Desktop Companion, Idler
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, 2D, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 2,509 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 9 in 10 of the 17 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
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
Florence 2020 · $2.7M 
Goodbye Volcano High 2023 · $1.5M 
When The Past Was Around 2020 · $941k 
FRAMED Collection 2018 · $700k 
Ithya: Magic Studies 2025 · $693k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Florence | older | $5.99 | 14,826 93% | 445k | $2.7M (exactly $2,664,232) | Mountains |
| | Goodbye Volcano High | older | $29.99 | 1,676 89% | 50k | $1.5M (exactly $1,507,897) | KO_OP |
| | When The Past Was Around | older | $7.99 | 3,924 94% | 118k | $941k (exactly $940,583) | Mojiken |
| | FRAMED Collection | older | $9.99 | 2,336 94% | 70k | $700k (exactly $700,099) | Loveshack Entertainment |
| | Ithya: Magic Studies | $10.99 | 2,103 97% | 63k | $693k (exactly $693,359) | BlueTurtle | |
 | Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP | older | $7.99 | 1,394 79% | 42k | $334k (exactly $334,142) | Capybara, Superbrothers, Jim Guthrie |
 | The Longest Road on Earth | older | $9.99 | 562 77% | 17k | $168k (exactly $168,431) | Brainwash Gang, TLR Games |
 | Once Upon a Jester | older | $14.99 | 261 100% | 7.8k | $117k (exactly $117,372) | Bonte Avond |
 | LOOM™ | older | $5.99 | 629 90% | 19k | $113k (exactly $113,031) | LucasArts |
 | Under Leaves | older | $4.99 | 744 95% | 22k | $111k (exactly $111,377) | Circus Atos |
 | CD Market - Music Label Sim | $19.99 | 105 97% | 3.2k | $63k (exactly $62,968) | Lost Star Games | |
 | With Me: Aquatic Time | · EA | $9.99 | 153 88% | 4.6k | $46k (exactly $45,854) | Sensory Patch Games |
 | Hidden Dogs | $4.99 | 53 98% | 1.6k | $7.9k (exactly $7,934) | Admiral Egg Games | |
 | Feather Land | $6.99 | 28 85% | 840 | $5.9k (exactly $5,872) | Peep Nest | |
 | Knights of the Round Peg | $11.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $2.9k (exactly $2,878) | Boomzap Inc | |
 | Your Personal Chill Apartment | $4.99 | 19 89% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Indovers Studio | |
 | Leaving Home | $3.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $2.6k (exactly $2,633) | Bart Bonte | |
 | 60 BPM | $6.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | SPEC Studio | |
 | 1997 RELOADED | $12.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $2.3k (exactly $2,338) | Gaigo Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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