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Should I ship a Point & Click Roguelite?
Roguelite + Point & Click
Of 94 developers who shipped a Point & Click Roguelite 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.. 121 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, ×1.3 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $180. Revenue is up 70% on the market; 121 games are announced against 64 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $600 (exactly $600) |
| Top 25% | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) |
| Top 5% | $67k (exactly $67,104) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 94 |
| Released games | 163 |
| Announced | 121 |
| 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 70% on the market, supply 115% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Roguelite
- 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
- Roguelite, Point & Click; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Roguelike, Simulation
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Cute, Hand-drawn
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 2,618 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 9 in 10 of the 31 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 121 games are announced against 64 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Betrayal At Club Low 2022 · $161k | 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 |
| | WORLD OF HORROR | older | $19.99 | 8,991 89% | 270k | $5.4M (exactly $5,391,903) | panstasz |
| | Distrust: Polar Survival | older | $12.99 | 1,764 73% | 53k | $687k (exactly $687,431) | Cheerdealers |
| | miniBONG | older | $9.99 | 881 79% | 26k | $264k (exactly $264,036) | Game Star |
| | Betrayal At Club Low | older | $9.99 | 538 97% | 16k | $161k (exactly $161,239) | Cosmo D Studios |
 | Increlution | · EA older | $3.99 | 1,237 85% | 37k | $148k (exactly $148,069) | Gniller |
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 | Rina's Undercover Train Operation | $13.99 | 286 70% | 8.6k | $120k (exactly $120,034) | Metamorphose | |
 | Roulette Hero | $9.99 | 260 92% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,922) | CLLC Studio | |
 | Skogdal | $19.99 | 112 98% | 3.4k | $67k (exactly $67,166) | Erlend Kirkeboe, Kay Arne Kirkeboe | |
 | Legends of Wasteland | $6.99 | 320 62% | 9.6k | $67k (exactly $67,104) | 清友工作室 | |
 | Duncrush | $3.99 | 321 82% | 9.6k | $38k (exactly $38,424) | Golden Pick Games | |
 | Dead Finger Dice | $4.99 | 230 78% | 6.9k | $34k (exactly $34,431) | Rocket Adrift Games | |
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 | Nano Neighbors | $7.99 | 112 76% | 3.4k | $27k (exactly $26,846) | Studio BitDot | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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