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Should I ship a Nature Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Nature
Of 169 developers who shipped a Nature 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.. 182 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.9 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $190k, ×413 the market median. Revenue is up 115% on the market; 182 games are announced against 86 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) |
| Top 5% | $196k (exactly $196,000) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 169 |
| Released games | 539 |
| Announced | 182 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Nature
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Point & Click; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Puzzle, Simulation, Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $11.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, 2D, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $11.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 10,356 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 118 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 182 games are announced against 86 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 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
Botanicula 2012 · $2.2M 
Chicken Police - Paint it RED! 2020 · $974k 
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town 2024 · $753k 
Mutazione 2019 · $673k 
Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy 2025 · $631k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Botanicula | older | $14.99 | 4,907 95% | 147k | $2.2M (exactly $2,206,678) | Amanita Design |
| | Chicken Police - Paint it RED! | older | $19.99 | 1,624 94% | 49k | $974k (exactly $973,913) | The Wild Gentlemen |
| | Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town | $29.99 | 837 95% | 25k | $753k (exactly $753,049) | h.a.n.d., Inc. | |
| | Mutazione | older | $19.99 | 1,123 95% | 34k | $673k (exactly $673,463) | Die Gute Fabrik |
| | Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy | $39.99 | 526 90% | 16k | $631k (exactly $631,042) | Microids Studio Paris | |
 | Morphopolis | older | $3.99 | 4,410 82% | 132k | $528k (exactly $527,877) | Dan Walters, Ceri Williams |
 | Maltese's Fluffy Onsen | $5.99 | 2,727 94% | 82k | $490k (exactly $490,042) | Sinkhole Studio, Moonlab Studio | |
 | Birdwatching Notebook | $9.99 | 1,588 97% | 48k | $476k (exactly $475,924) | Biekka Games | |
 | Know by heart | older | $19.99 | 792 89% | 24k | $475k (exactly $474,962) | Ice-Pick Lodge |
 | Find Matt's Cats | $19.99 | 719 98% | 22k | $431k (exactly $431,184) | Matt Roszak | |
 | Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth | $19.99 | 486 97% | 15k | $291k (exactly $291,454) | Hyper Games | |
 | HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM | $3.99 | 1,936 97% | 58k | $232k (exactly $231,739) | Stone | |
 | Tukoni: Forest Keepers | $9.99 | 703 99% | 21k | $211k (exactly $210,689) | Dream Operator | |
 | The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure | $13.99 | 467 97% | 14k | $196k (exactly $196,000) | The Wonder Room | |
 | Bento Blocks | $14.99 | 367 97% | 11k | $165k (exactly $165,040) | SOMETIMES LIMITED |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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