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Should I ship a Spelling Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Spelling
Only 15 developers shipped a Spelling 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, Pago Forest 2: Frozen Memories, 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: dead, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180 in the last 2 years and $150 over 4, against a market of $120 for a 2 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 12 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $3.2k (exactly $3,224) |
| Top 5% | $13k (exactly $12,887) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 60 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 10% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Spelling
- effort 1 / 10 · high · effort 1 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Point & Click, Spelling
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 222 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. All of the 8 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
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Comparable games
Wordle 2021 · $1.1M 
Wordle 3 2020 · $560k 
Wordle 2 2020 · $362k 
Writer's Rush 2024 · $72k 
Pago Forest 2: Frozen Memories 2026 · $13k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Wordle | older | $30.62 | 1,147 80% | 34k | $1.1M (exactly $1,053,634) | PreoNus Games |
| | Wordle 3 | older | $30.62 | 610 78% | 18k | $560k (exactly $560,346) | PreoNus Games |
| | Wordle 2 | older | $30.62 | 394 61% | 12k | $362k (exactly $361,928) | PreoNus Games |
| | Writer's Rush | older | $5.99 | 402 74% | 12k | $72k (exactly $72,239) | Frogstorm |
| | Pago Forest 2: Frozen Memories | $9.99 | 43 88% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $12,887) | Futurtech | |
 | Unwording | older | $4.99 | 66 75% | 2.0k | $9.9k (exactly $9,880) | Frostwood Interactive |
 | The Castle of Dr. Hoot | $4.99 | 60 80% | 1.8k | $9.0k (exactly $8,982) | BitWizard | |
 | Pleasure Puzzle:Portrait 趣拼拼：肖像画 | older | $0.99 | 194 95% | 5.8k | $5.8k (exactly $5,762) | 冷笑黑妖 |
 | LA FORET DE PAGO : LA VENGEANCE DU DRAGON | older | $5.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $4.9k (exactly $4,852) | Futurtech |
 | Pleasure Puzzle:Workshop 趣拼拼：拼图工坊 | older | $0.99 | 162 87% | 4.9k | $4.8k (exactly $4,811) | 冷笑黑妖 |
 | DISORDER - Save Your Family | $3.99 | 36 86% | 1.1k | $4.3k (exactly $4,309) | StonieDude | |
 | Spreadsheets and Nothing More | $1.99 | 54 100% | 1.6k | $3.2k (exactly $3,224) | Rinanda Hidayat | |
 | Unstimulated Simulator | $0.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $535 (exactly $535) | Shotsy Enterprise | |
 | Arthur's Reading Games | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Jordan Freeman Group, Marc Brown Studio… (Jordan Freeman Group, Marc Brown Studios, Wanderful Edutainment) | |
 | Hangman Pro | · EA | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Hard Shark Games |
 | Relax Scramble: Endless Word Puzzle | $1.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $298 (exactly $298) | Perch Labs | |
 | LEARNMOOR: Kids Academy | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | NorShark | |
 | MeowWare | · EA | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Tyler Ashbrook (Scree44s) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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