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Should I ship a Vampire Point & Click game?
Point & Click + Vampires
Only 19 developers shipped a Vampire 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, Cabernet, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.4k, ×2.3 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $1.2M, ×1934 the market median. Revenue is down 40% on the market; 28 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
| Top 25% | $8.4k (exactly $8,390) |
| Top 5% | $1.2M (exactly $1,214,392) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 60 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 40% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
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
- Vampires
- 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; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure, Visual Novel
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Hand-drawn, Story Rich
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 2,600 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 8 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Point & Click with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + JRPGFair
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Party-Based RPGFair
- + Life SimFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + MiningFair
- + CookingFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + UnderwaterFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + Online Co-OpFair
- + Word GameFair
Comparable games
Cabernet 2025 · $1.2M 
A Castle Full of Cats 2022 · $488k 
Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova 2015 · $196k 
Near-Mage 2025 · $108k 
Dracula: Origin 2008 · $97k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cabernet | $19.99 | 2,025 94% | 61k | $1.2M (exactly $1,214,392) | Party for Introverts | |
| | A Castle Full of Cats | older | $3.99 | 4,073 99% | 122k | $488k (exactly $487,538) | Devcats |
| | Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova | older | $14.99 | 435 88% | 13k | $196k (exactly $195,620) | Organic 2 Digital Studio |
| | Near-Mage | $19.99 | 180 89% | 5.4k | $108k (exactly $107,946) | Stuck In Attic | |
| | Dracula: Origin | older | $9.99 | 324 76% | 9.7k | $97k (exactly $97,103) | Frogwares |
 | Dracula: Love Kills | older | $9.99 | 298 80% | 8.9k | $89k (exactly $89,311) | Waterlily Games |
 | Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition | older | $14.99 | 176 84% | 5.3k | $79k (exactly $79,147) | Screaming Villains |
 | A Vampyre Story | older | $9.99 | 258 75% | 7.7k | $77k (exactly $77,323) | Autumn Moon Entertainment, Jordan Freem… (Autumn Moon Entertainment, Jordan Freeman Group) |
 | The World Well: Blood of Caro | $11.99 | 205 85% | 6.2k | $74k (exactly $73,738) | Nimparth | |
 | Dracula: The Resurrection | older | $4.99 | 389 54% | 12k | $58k (exactly $58,233) | Microids |
 | Hidden Cats in Spooky Village | $4.99 | 76 100% | 2.3k | $11k (exactly $11,377) | Nukearts Studio | |
 | Asfalia: Panic at the Mansion | $7.99 | 35 100% | 1.1k | $8.4k (exactly $8,390) | Funtomata | |
 | Vampire Nights: Horny Secret | $7.99 | 21 52% | 630 | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) | Strawberry Playhouse | |
 | NUMANUIN | $4.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Siberian Mouse | |
 | Gloomy Tales: Hotel Frightsylvania Collector’s Edition | $8.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $2.4k (exactly $2,427) | Do Games Limited | |
 | There's No Differences: Monsters | $3.99 | 20 100% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | Error 300 | |
 | Missing Hearts: Сrimson Cruise Collector's Edition | $11.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Do Games Limited |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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