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Should I ship a Point & Click Turn-Based Tactics?
Turn-Based Tactics + Point & Click
Of 55 developers who shipped a Point & Click Turn-Based Tactics 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.. 58 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 30 developers shipped in the last year and 58 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $360 (exactly $360) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) |
| Top 5% | $114k (exactly $114,262) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 55 |
| Released games | 165 |
| Announced | 58 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Turn-Based Tactics
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Point & Click
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Turn-Based Tactics, Point & Click; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, RPG, Turn-Based Combat
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Colorful, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 1,219 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 31 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 58 games are announced against 30 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
60 Seconds! Reatomized 2019 · $5.5M 
60 Seconds! 2015 · $2.8M 
60 Parsecs! 2018 · $992k 
Aether & Iron 2026 · $391k 
Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption 2018 · $252k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 60 Seconds! Reatomized | older | $9.99 | 18,362 94% | 551k | $5.5M (exactly $5,503,091) | Robot Gentleman |
| | 60 Seconds! | older | $8.99 | 10,491 84% | 315k | $2.8M (exactly $2,829,423) | Robot Gentleman |
| | 60 Parsecs! | older | $9.99 | 3,310 90% | 99k | $992k (exactly $992,007) | Robot Gentleman |
| | Aether & Iron | $24.99 | 521 84% | 16k | $391k (exactly $390,594) | Seismic Squirrel, Chaos Theory Games | |
| | Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption | older | $29.99 | 280 90% | 8.4k | $252k (exactly $251,916) | Transolar Games |
 | Mohism: Battle of Words | older | $9.99 | 570 76% | 17k | $171k (exactly $170,829) | 玄镜工作室 |
 | The DeLuca Family - Season 1 | older | $15.99 | 301 75% | 9.0k | $144k (exactly $144,390) | MemoGaming |
 | Escort Simulator | older | $19.99 | 215 61% | 6.5k | $129k (exactly $128,935) | Somavision Games |
 | Peace, Death! 2 | older | $4.99 | 854 95% | 26k | $128k (exactly $127,844) | AZAMATIKA |
 | Rina's Undercover Train Operation | $13.99 | 286 70% | 8.6k | $120k (exactly $120,034) | Metamorphose | |
 | Legends of the Round Table | $29.99 | 127 89% | 3.8k | $114k (exactly $114,262) | Artifice Studio | |
 | Kaamos: Puzzle Roguelike | $9.99 | 73 87% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,878) | Pepperbox Studios | |
 | Sex Arena: Passion of Aquilon 💋⚔️ | $6.99 | 95 68% | 2.9k | $20k (exactly $19,922) | Aquilon | |
 | Rise of Atom | $19.99 | 29 79% | 870 | $17k (exactly $17,391) | Glass Bubble Software | |
 | Shining Princess Lapisphilia | $12.99 | 38 71% | 1.1k | $15k (exactly $14,809) | Ice Candy | |
 | Quarterstaff | $24.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $13k (exactly $13,495) | Generic Lake Monster, LLC | |
 | Tabletops & Bottoms | $10.99 | 15 60% | 450 | $4.9k (exactly $4,946) | PopotoProductions | |
 | Guild of Hunters | $8.99 | 17 52% | 510 | $4.6k (exactly $4,585) | Sunny Horizon Game Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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