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Should I ship a Point & Click Wargame?
Wargame + Point & Click
Only 16 developers shipped a Point & Click Wargame 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, Loot of Idle, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 10 developers shipped in the last year and 16 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 5% | $2.0k (exactly $1,970) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 16 |
| 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 up 170% on the market, supply 65% 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.
- Wargame
- 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
- Wargame, Point & Click; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Action, Auto Battler
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Colorful, 2D, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 58% positive over 74 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Wargame with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + NavalFair
- + TabletopFair
- + LogicFair
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
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War Mines: WW2 2021 · $5.1k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 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.) |
| | Encoded War | older | $11.99 | 48 77% | 1.4k | $17k (exactly $17,266) | Somnolent Team |
| | Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story | older | $4.99 | 105 89% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,718) | Gard Interactive |
| | War Mines: WW1 | older | $3.99 | 46 93% | 1.4k | $5.5k (exactly $5,506) | Wild Pepper Games |
| | War Mines: WW2 | older | $3.99 | 43 86% | 1.3k | $5.1k (exactly $5,147) | Wild Pepper Games |
 | Tankex | older | $1.99 | 50 76% | 1.5k | $3.0k (exactly $2,985) | RewindApp |
 | Loot of Idle | $1.99 | 33 48% | 990 | $2.0k (exactly $1,970) | DarkRook Interactive | |
 | 消灭魔王军 Destroy the Demon Army | older | $5.00 | 13 38% | 390 | $2.0k (exactly $1,950) | Blueprint Core |
 | Dezinsector | older | $2.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Fly Fly Tank | older | $11.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Cmos Studio |
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 | Epic Naval Battle Simulator | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | ENBS Dev team | |
 | Court Wizard | $4.00 | 5 100% | 150 | $600 (exactly $600) | Blackhearth Games | |
 | Goblin Lands | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Hot Waffle Games | |
 | Omega Luma : The First Battle | $12.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Mavi Game Studios | |
 | F2 A! Idle Army | $2.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Chris Yu | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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