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Should I ship a Psychological Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Psychological
Of 158 developers who shipped a Psychological 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.. 263 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×4.1 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $480; 1 in 20 cleared $190k, ×417 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 263 games are announced against 99 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $479 (exactly $479) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $11,745) |
| Top 5% | $198k (exactly $198,195) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 158 |
| Released games | 432 |
| Announced | 263 |
| 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 down 55% on the market, supply 55% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Psychological
- 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 Adventure, Puzzle, Visual Novel
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Story Rich, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 11,854 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 8 in 10 of the 81 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 263 games are announced against 99 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 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
Inscryption 2021 · $81M 
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD 2022 · $26M 
Fran Bow 2015 · $9.3M 
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk 2021 · $5.6M 
Minds Beneath Us 2024 · $3.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Inscryption | older | $19.99 | 135,017 96% | 4.1M | $81M (exactly $80,969,695) | Daniel Mullins Games |
| | NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD | older | $15.99 | 54,053 94% | 1.6M | $26M (exactly $25,929,224) | WSS playground, xemono |
| | Fran Bow | older | $14.99 | 20,579 97% | 617k | $9.3M (exactly $9,254,376) | Killmonday Games AB |
| | Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk | older | $8.99 | 20,771 96% | 623k | $5.6M (exactly $5,601,939) | Nikita Kryukov |
| | Minds Beneath Us | older | $19.99 | 5,749 96% | 172k | $3.4M (exactly $3,447,675) | BearBoneStudio |
 | Hypnospace Outlaw | older | $19.99 | 4,824 96% | 145k | $2.9M (exactly $2,892,953) | Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs… (Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media) |
 | Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- | · EA older | $16.99 | 4,122 97% | 124k | $2.1M (exactly $2,100,983) | Nankidai |
 | Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes | older | $19.99 | 2,752 88% | 83k | $1.7M (exactly $1,650,374) | Daedalic Entertainment |
 | Amanda the Adventurer | older | $8.99 | 5,931 94% | 178k | $1.6M (exactly $1,599,591) | MANGLEDmaw Games |
 | The Cat Lady | older | $8.99 | 4,802 93% | 144k | $1.3M (exactly $1,295,099) | Harvester Games |
 | Rue Valley | $14.99 | 1,905 69% | 57k | $857k (exactly $856,678) | Emotion Spark Studio | |
 | and Roger | $4.99 | 2,703 95% | 81k | $405k (exactly $404,639) | TearyHand Studio | |
 | Last Report | $4.99 | 2,423 89% | 73k | $363k (exactly $362,723) | Monopixel Games | |
 | Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken | $19.99 | 595 94% | 18k | $357k (exactly $356,822) | scriptwelder | |
 | Slender Threads | $19.99 | 574 90% | 17k | $344k (exactly $344,228) | Blyts | |
 | Mindlock - The Apartment | $14.99 | 629 95% | 19k | $283k (exactly $282,861) | Roof Cut Media | |
 | HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM | $3.99 | 1,936 97% | 58k | $232k (exactly $231,739) | Stone | |
 | Leila | $11.99 | 551 86% | 17k | $198k (exactly $198,195) | Ubik Studios | |
 | The Stone of Madness | $29.99 | 199 77% | 6.0k | $179k (exactly $179,040) | The Game Kitchen | |
 | Sex Change Contract and Molester Girl | $16.99 | 339 86% | 10k | $173k (exactly $172,788) | 狐狸姊姊（FoxSister） |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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