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Should I ship a Train Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Trains
Only 9 developers shipped a Train 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, Beholder: Conductor, 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, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $23k against a market of $630. 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $5.5k (exactly $5,458) |
|---|---|
| Median | $23k (exactly $23,361) |
| Top 25% | $159k (exactly $158,853) |
| Top 5% | $1.9M (exactly $1,902,080) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 380% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
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
- Trains
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Point & Click
- Price point
- $12.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $17.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 9,083 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $5.5k. 4 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Point & Click with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MiningFair
- + CookingFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + Online Co-OpFair
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Comparable games
Beholder: Conductor 2025 · $1.9M 
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express 2023 · $1.3M 
Loco Motive 2024 · $654k 
Brno Transit 2026 · $159k 
Nancy Drew®: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon 2009 · $118k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Beholder: Conductor | $13.99 | 4,532 91% | 136k | $1.9M (exactly $1,902,080) | Alawar | |
| | Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express | older | $39.99 | 1,080 82% | 32k | $1.3M (exactly $1,295,676) | Microids Studio Lyon |
| | Loco Motive | $17.99 | 1,211 92% | 36k | $654k (exactly $653,577) | Robust Games | |
| | Brno Transit | $8.99 | 589 85% | 18k | $159k (exactly $158,853) | Spytihněv | |
| | Nancy Drew®: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon | older | $9.99 | 395 96% | 12k | $118k (exactly $118,382) | HeR Interactive |
 | Thought Experiment Simulator | older | $4.99 | 620 81% | 19k | $93k (exactly $92,814) | HoHo Game Studio |
 | The Last Express Gold Edition | older | $6.99 | 332 79% | 10k | $70k (exactly $69,620) | Dotemu |
 | Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville | $19.99 | 104 88% | 3.1k | $62k (exactly $62,369) | The Wild Gentlemen | |
 | Re:Turn - One Way Trip | older | $11.99 | 132 79% | 4.0k | $47k (exactly $47,480) | Red Ego Games |
 | Recolit | older | $14.99 | 88 87% | 2.6k | $40k (exactly $39,574) | Image Labo, Marudice |
 | Locomotive 115 | $5.99 | 130 93% | 3.9k | $23k (exactly $23,361) | Bucket of Fish | |
 | Mysteries of Old Tokyo | $12.99 | 41 100% | 1.2k | $16k (exactly $15,978) | Bolerosoft | |
 | VOID SOUL | $25.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $5.5k (exactly $5,458) | OWLOGUE Co., Ltd. | |
 | Mysterious Mystery, EP 1: The Duo Dilemma | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Walker Sheets | |
 | Crustacean Station! | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Crustacean Corporation |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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