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Should I ship a Snow Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Snow
Only 17 developers shipped a Snow 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, Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.9 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $270. Revenue is down 30% on the market; 12 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 5% | $291k (exactly $291,454) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 50 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 30% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Snow
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Point & Click; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Hidden Object, Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $11.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Relaxing, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $11.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 704 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. All of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth 2026 · $291k 
Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy 2010 · $151k 
Nancy Drew®: Sea of Darkness 2017 · $128k 
MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE 2023 · $101k 
Hidden Paws 2018 · $78k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth | $19.99 | 486 97% | 15k | $291k (exactly $291,454) | Hyper Games | |
| | Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy | older | $14.99 | 335 90% | 10k | $151k (exactly $150,650) | HeR Interactive |
| | Nancy Drew®: Sea of Darkness | older | $19.99 | 213 92% | 6.4k | $128k (exactly $127,736) | HeR Interactive |
| | MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE | older | $12.99 | 259 77% | 7.8k | $101k (exactly $100,932) | Hakababunko |
| | Hidden Paws | older | $2.99 | 875 84% | 26k | $78k (exactly $78,488) | Manic Hyena |
 | Dünnes Eis - Das Spiel zum Song | older | $3.99 | 490 99% | 15k | $59k (exactly $58,653) | Baumann Bergmann Pokinsson, Jan Baumann |
 | Inua - A Story in Ice and Time | older | $14.99 | 81 93% | 2.4k | $36k (exactly $36,426) | The Pixel Hunt, IKO, ARTE France |
 | Azazel's Christmas Fable | older | $8.99 | 104 100% | 3.1k | $28k (exactly $28,049) | Greg Muhlbock |
 | Cave Quest | older | $9.99 | 84 94% | 2.5k | $25k (exactly $25,175) | MD Studio |
 | Facility 47 | older | $4.99 | 107 90% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $16,018) | Inertia Game Studios |
 | Yuki-Onna Checker | $2.99 | 101 89% | 3.0k | $9.1k (exactly $9,060) | 闇宮 | |
 | Hidden Winter Things | $2.99 | 73 98% | 2.2k | $6.5k (exactly $6,548) | Galysh Company | |
 | Christmas Fables: Nutcracker's Tale Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Jixo: The Season of Joy Collector's Edition | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | MixoGames Ltd. | |
 | Christmas Fables: The Wishing Store Collector's Edition | $8.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.1k (exactly $1,079) | Do Games Limited | |
 | Christmas Hustle | $1.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | Error 300 | |
 | Winter Hubris | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Melty Clown Studio | |
 | Bounce Quest | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | nozech | |
 | The Blessing of Airon | $2.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | BakerTheGameMaker |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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