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Should I ship a Point & Click Survival game?
Survival + Point & Click
Of 78 developers who shipped a Point & Click Survival 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.. 115 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $390 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 53 developers shipped in the last year and 115 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 25% | $1.4k (exactly $1,366) |
| Top 5% | $16k (exactly $16,484) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 78 |
| Released games | 282 |
| Announced | 115 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 110% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Survival, Point & Click; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Choices Matter, Simulation
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, 3D, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,085 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 33 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 115 games are announced against 53 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Auto BattlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + DogsFair
- + Martial ArtsLong shot
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Comparable games
The Walking Dead 2012 · $24M 
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc 2016 · $22M 
The Walking Dead: Season Two 2013 · $12M 
The Walking Dead: The Final Season 2018 · $10M 
Five Nights at Freddy's 2014 · $8.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Walking Dead | older | $14.99 | 53,650 97% | 1.6M | $24M (exactly $24,126,405) | Telltale Games |
| | Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc | older | $19.99 | 36,194 96% | 1.1M | $22M (exactly $21,705,542) | Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., Abstraction G… (Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., Abstraction Games) |
| | The Walking Dead: Season Two | older | $14.99 | 26,848 96% | 805k | $12M (exactly $12,073,546) | Telltale Games |
| | The Walking Dead: The Final Season | older | $19.99 | 17,447 94% | 523k | $10M (exactly $10,462,966) | Telltale Games |
| | Five Nights at Freddy's | older | $4.99 | 53,607 94% | 1.6M | $8.0M (exactly $8,024,968) | Scott Cawthon |
 | The Walking Dead: A New Frontier | older | $14.99 | 15,482 83% | 464k | $7.0M (exactly $6,962,255) | Telltale Games |
 | Five Nights at Freddy's 2 | older | $7.99 | 23,871 93% | 716k | $5.7M (exactly $5,721,879) | Scott Cawthon |
 | 60 Seconds! Reatomized | older | $9.99 | 18,362 94% | 551k | $5.5M (exactly $5,503,091) | Robot Gentleman |
 | WORLD OF HORROR | older | $19.99 | 8,991 89% | 270k | $5.4M (exactly $5,391,903) | panstasz |
 | Five Nights at Freddy's 4 | older | $7.99 | 15,483 93% | 464k | $3.7M (exactly $3,711,275) | Scott Cawthon |
 | Sister Ray | $11.99 | 410 95% | 12k | $147k (exactly $147,477) | The Growing Stones | |
 | 1998: The Toll Keeper Story | $11.99 | 292 89% | 8.8k | $105k (exactly $105,032) | GameChanger Studio | |
 | SEXXX GIRLS [18+] | $9.99 | 114 71% | 3.4k | $34k (exactly $34,166) | Lust Desires 🖤 | |
 | Wordless Forest | $9.99 | 55 45% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $16,484) | Dogus Cagrici | |
 | Cult Vacui | $7.50 | 49 97% | 1.5k | $11k (exactly $11,025) | LBRTY games | |
 | Italian Brainrot: In Prison | $4.99 | 64 81% | 1.9k | $9.6k (exactly $9,581) | ShLeks, Hero | |
 | The Peak of Life | $8.99 | 30 66% | 900 | $8.1k (exactly $8,091) | XY Game | |
 | Go To Sleep | $6.99 | 34 82% | 1.0k | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) | YuRo Games | |
 | Stage Cleared | $4.99 | 24 91% | 720 | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) | Anel Djesevic, Raystani Enock de Olivei… (Anel Djesevic, Raystani Enock de Oliveira) | |
 | The Dark Delivers | $8.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.5k (exactly $3,506) | JaB Arcade |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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