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Should I ship a War Point & Click game?
Point & Click + War
Only 17 developers shipped a War 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, Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.0k, ×1.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $120k, ×200 the market median. Revenue is up 325% on the market; 35 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,518) |
| Top 5% | $125k (exactly $125,431) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 71 |
| Announced | 35 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 up 325% on the market, supply 85% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, 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
- War
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Point & Click; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Incremental, Simulation
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $7.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Atmospheric, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $7.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 909 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 35 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 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
My Child Lebensborn Remastered 2023 · $311k 
Torn Away 2023 · $268k 
Lost Horizon 2010 · $138k 
Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite 2025 · $125k 
Lost Horizon 2 2015 · $94k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | My Child Lebensborn Remastered | older | $7.99 | 1,299 96% | 39k | $311k (exactly $311,370) | Teknopilot AS, Sarepta Studio AS |
| | Torn Away | older | $14.99 | 595 92% | 18k | $268k (exactly $267,572) | perelesoq |
| | Lost Horizon | older | $9.99 | 460 91% | 14k | $138k (exactly $137,862) | Animation Arts |
| | Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite | $5.99 | 698 83% | 21k | $125k (exactly $125,431) | RyanJakob | |
| | Lost Horizon 2 | older | $14.99 | 210 46% | 6.3k | $94k (exactly $94,437) | Animation Arts GmbH |
 | Guilty Parade | older | $8.99 | 272 91% | 8.2k | $73k (exactly $73,358) | Nozori Games |
 | Svoboda 1945: Liberation | older | $15.99 | 145 98% | 4.4k | $70k (exactly $69,556) | Charles Games |
 | Raid on Taihoku | older | $12.99 | 151 82% | 4.5k | $59k (exactly $58,845) | Mizoriot Creative Company LTD., Fun2 St… (Mizoriot Creative Company LTD., Fun2 Studio CO., LTD.) |
 | Save One More | older | $4.99 | 187 62% | 5.6k | $28k (exactly $27,994) | Stas Shostak |
 | Border Conqueror | older | $6.99 | 104 53% | 3.1k | $22k (exactly $21,809) | Kanoe |
 | Songs of Yummy | $3.99 | 98 74% | 2.9k | $12k (exactly $11,731) | DreamStep, FUTU Studio | |
 | Briefcase | $3.99 | 39 100% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | Yuri Antunes | |
 | Letters of War | $7.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $4.1k (exactly $4,075) | Wood Cabin Games | |
 | Triptych Book I: Blockhead | · EA | $13.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $2.5k (exactly $2,518) | Mords, Tootsie |
 | A Lost Man | $4.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $2.2k (exactly $2,246) | Studio Arkos | |
 | Black Border 2 | $1.99 | 19 63% | 570 | $1.1k (exactly $1,134) | Bitzooma | |
 | Fallen Goddesses | $4.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Sacred Seduction Studios | |
 | The Syndicate: Classified Operations | $4.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | A and I Software | |
 | Epic Naval Battle Simulator | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | ENBS Dev team |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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