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Should I ship a Pirate Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Pirates
Only 12 developers shipped a Pirate 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, Pirates: Golden tits: Chapter 1, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,247) |
| Top 5% | $46k (exactly $45,854) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 62 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 down 30% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Pirates
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Point & Click
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 79% positive over 211 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Point & Click with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Life SimFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + MiningFair
- + CookingFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + Online Co-OpFair
- + Word GameFair
Comparable games
Return to Monkey Island 2022 · $6.3M 
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition 2009 · $1.6M 
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ 2010 · $783k 
The Curse of Monkey Island 2018 · $592k 
Hero of the Kingdom II 2015 · $512k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Return to Monkey Island | older | $24.99 | 8,412 91% | 252k | $6.3M (exactly $6,306,476) | Terrible Toybox |
| | The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition | older | $9.99 | 5,335 95% | 160k | $1.6M (exactly $1,598,900) | LucasArts |
| | Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ | older | $9.99 | 2,612 94% | 78k | $783k (exactly $782,816) | LucasArts |
| | The Curse of Monkey Island | older | $6.99 | 2,821 97% | 85k | $592k (exactly $591,564) | LucasArts |
| | Hero of the Kingdom II | older | $8.99 | 1,900 95% | 57k | $512k (exactly $512,430) | Lonely Troops |
 | Cleo - a pirate's tale | older | $14.99 | 705 98% | 21k | $317k (exactly $317,038) | Christoph Schultz |
 | Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town | older | $19.99 | 510 87% | 15k | $306k (exactly $305,847) | imaginarylab |
 | Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season | older | $14.99 | 669 88% | 20k | $301k (exactly $300,849) | Telltale |
 | Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption | older | $29.99 | 280 90% | 8.4k | $252k (exactly $251,916) | Transolar Games |
 | Escape from Monkey Island™ | older | $6.99 | 680 56% | 20k | $143k (exactly $142,596) | LucasArts |
 | Pirates: Golden tits: Chapter 1 | $9.99 | 153 80% | 4.6k | $46k (exactly $45,854) | HotBunny | |
 | Adventure Seekers: Lost to Sea Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 5 20% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Do Games Limited | |
 | 100 Find Kitties: Pirates | $0.99 | 42 83% | 1.3k | $1.2k (exactly $1,247) | Sons of Welder | |
 | Hidden Legends | $6.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | 17Studio | |
 | Goblin Lands | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Hot Waffle Games | |
 | Albert's Ark Idle | $4.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Albert Tross Productions | |
 | Sea of Trials | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Yagir.inc | |
 | 99 Lives - Russian Roulette | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Gamma Games LLC | |
 | Where's Fido? | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Curioso Games Ltd | |
 | Stars Online | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nicole Moon Bole |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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