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Should I ship a Sokoban Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Sokoban
Only 11 developers shipped a Sokoban 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, Pushmania, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $120 for a 2 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) |
| Top 5% | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $1.99 |
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 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, 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
- Sokoban
- effort 2 / 10 · high · grid pushing rules and level files
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Point & Click, Sokoban
- Price point
- $1.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 57 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
About Love, Hate and the other ones 2014 · $150k 
Hexologic 2018 · $102k 
Drag and Drop Medieval 2024 · $82k 
Crossroad OS 2023 · $45k 
Nova: Cloudwalker's Tale 2023 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | About Love, Hate and the other ones | older | $7.99 | 626 90% | 19k | $150k (exactly $150,052) | Black Pants Studio |
| | Hexologic | older | $4.99 | 684 96% | 21k | $102k (exactly $102,395) | MythicOwl |
| | Drag and Drop Medieval | older | $29.99 | 91 85% | 2.7k | $82k (exactly $81,873) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Crossroad OS | older | $4.99 | 302 98% | 9.1k | $45k (exactly $45,209) | Guy, Daisy Games |
| | Nova: Cloudwalker's Tale | older | $9.99 | 54 96% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $16,184) | Racoon & Sheep |
 | Pushmania | $19.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Kind of Games | |
 | Chess Brain: Dark Troops | older | $2.99 | 64 93% | 1.9k | $5.7k (exactly $5,741) | Caio Flavio |
 | War Mines: WW1 | older | $3.99 | 46 93% | 1.4k | $5.5k (exactly $5,506) | Wild Pepper Games |
 | Chess Brain | older | $0.99 | 156 89% | 4.7k | $4.6k (exactly $4,633) | Caio Flavio |
 | Fable of Sand Paws | older | $10.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) | Arthur Iung Dias |
 | NTR Neko Maid: Erotic Favor | $14.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) | ハーフトーンドット | |
 | Crossed Wires | $11.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Aleth Labs | |
 | Idol Hacked! | $1.99 | 16 43% | 480 | $955 (exactly $955) | theNeko | |
 | Arthur's Preschool | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Jordan Freeman Group, Marc Brown Studio… (Jordan Freeman Group, Marc Brown Studios, Wanderful Edutainment) | |
 | Devour the Elixir | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | 泉游工作室 | |
 | GridFiller | $0.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | AlchemistGame | |
 | Weapon Rearing | $0.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | JIYUTORISEI | |
 | Dream Kitten | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | SmartGames | |
 | Puyo! Sokoban | $0.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | SkyStudio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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