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Should I ship a Romance Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Romance
Of 190 developers who shipped a Romance 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.. 264 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.8k, ×32 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $630; 1 in 20 cleared $350k, ×2988 the market median. Revenue is up 200% on the market; 264 games are announced against 115 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $629 (exactly $629) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.8k (exactly $3,838) |
| Top 25% | $19k (exactly $19,391) |
| Top 5% | $356k (exactly $355,622) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 190 |
| Released games | 677 |
| Announced | 264 |
| Effort | 2 / 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 200% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- Romance
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Point & Click; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Visual Novel, Dating Sim, Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $15.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Story Rich, Anime
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $15.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 97% positive over 188,151 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. 8 in 10 of the 134 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 264 games are announced against 115 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Point & Click with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Party-Based RPGFair
- + Life SimFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + MiningFair
- + CookingFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + Online Co-OpFair
- + Word GameFair
Comparable games
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023 · $17M 
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension 2020 · $9.4M 
HuniePop 2015 · $7.2M 
Gone Home 2013 · $6.1M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dispatch | $29.99 | 174,624 97% | 5.2M | $157M (exactly $157,109,213) | AdHoc Studio | |
| | Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut | older | $17.99 | 31,885 96% | 957k | $17M (exactly $17,208,334) | Black Tabby Games |
| | There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension | older | $12.99 | 24,144 97% | 724k | $9.4M (exactly $9,408,917) | Draw Me A Pixel |
| | HuniePop | older | $9.99 | 23,989 96% | 720k | $7.2M (exactly $7,189,503) | HuniePot |
| | Gone Home | older | $14.99 | 13,619 77% | 409k | $6.1M (exactly $6,124,464) | Fullbright |
 | Summer Clover | older | $17.99 | 9,062 97% | 272k | $4.9M (exactly $4,890,761) | Connection |
 | Storyteller | older | $14.99 | 8,169 88% | 245k | $3.7M (exactly $3,673,599) | Daniel Benmergui |
 | Deponia: The Complete Journey | older | $29.99 | 3,375 85% | 101k | $3.0M (exactly $3,036,488) | Daedalic Entertainment |
 | Treasure of Nadia | older | $14.99 | 6,392 92% | 192k | $2.9M (exactly $2,874,482) | NLT Media |
 | Florence | older | $5.99 | 14,826 93% | 445k | $2.7M (exactly $2,664,232) | Mountains |
 | Sovereign Tower | $19.99 | 3,087 93% | 93k | $1.9M (exactly $1,851,274) | WILD WITS GAMES | |
 | Cabernet | $19.99 | 2,025 94% | 61k | $1.2M (exactly $1,214,392) | Party for Introverts | |
 | SHUTEN ORDER | $49.99 | 712 80% | 21k | $1.1M (exactly $1,067,786) | Neilo Inc. | |
 | Crushed In Time | $24.99 | 1,247 90% | 37k | $935k (exactly $934,876) | Draw Me A Pixel | |
 | Spooky Milk Life | · EA | $11.99 | 1,216 74% | 36k | $437k (exactly $437,395) | MangoMango, Studio Ginkgo |
 | and Roger | $4.99 | 2,703 95% | 81k | $405k (exactly $404,639) | TearyHand Studio | |
 | Foolish Mortals | $19.99 | 663 94% | 20k | $398k (exactly $397,601) | Inklingwood Studios | |
 | MILFs of Sunville - Season 2 | $9.99 | 1,281 88% | 38k | $384k (exactly $383,916) | L7team | |
 | Night Shift Nurses | $19.99 | 593 84% | 18k | $356k (exactly $355,622) | Shiravune |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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