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Should I ship a Point & Click Precision Platformer?
Precision Platformer + Point & Click
Only 16 developers shipped a Point & Click Precision Platformer 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, Monument Valley 3, 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, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $30 in the last 2 years and $30 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 8 developers shipped in the last year and 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $30 (exactly $30) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 5% | $969k (exactly $969,104) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 80 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, 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.
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Precision Platformer, Point & Click; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Platformer, Puzzle, Puzzle Platformer
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Abstract, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 2,323 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. Nearly all of the 21 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Precision Platformer with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + FPSFair
- + GothicFair
- + HorrorFair
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + SandboxFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
- + RPGFair
Comparable games
Monument Valley 3 2025 · $969k 
Monument Valley 2 2022 · $845k 
The Shape of Things 2023 · $56k 
Aim Climb 2022 · $46k 
LUL inc. 2022 · $15k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Monument Valley 3 | $14.99 | 2,155 93% | 65k | $969k (exactly $969,104) | ustwo games | |
| | Monument Valley 2 | older | $7.99 | 3,526 93% | 106k | $845k (exactly $845,182) | ustwo games |
| | The Shape of Things | older | $6.99 | 267 88% | 8.0k | $56k (exactly $55,990) | Hyper Three Studio |
| | Aim Climb | older | $6.80 | 225 89% | 6.8k | $46k (exactly $45,900) | YuLu |
| | LUL inc. | older | $4.99 | 103 98% | 3.1k | $15k (exactly $15,419) | Alexander Lahti, 2pfrog |
 | a weird game about sausage | $2.99 | 130 90% | 3.9k | $12k (exactly $11,661) | Madman's Cheese | |
 | Score a goal 2 (Physical football) | older | $2.99 | 109 71% | 3.3k | $9.8k (exactly $9,777) | BulatHard |
 | Shot in the Dark | older | $9.99 | 24 100% | 720 | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) | Possum House Games |
 | Knife To Meet You | older | $14.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $5.8k (exactly $5,846) | Mate Magyar |
 | Rain Runner | older | $4.99 | 37 91% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | SkyBrave |
 | Blueprint Bob | $6.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) | Alexander Lahti, Suumpmolk, The LoFi Bo… (Alexander Lahti, Suumpmolk, The LoFi Boi, MrMusicGuy) | |
 | BiColor - Vision Trainer | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Binary Brain Games | |
 | Bounce Quest | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | nozech | |
 | PsyUp: A Psychological Physics Puzzle | $1.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $418 (exactly $418) | N2kStudio | |
 | Jigzo | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | ggame | |
 | Sudoku-Zen | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | walkgame | |
 | Pixelo | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | ggame | |
 | Fitly | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | ggame |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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