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Should I ship a WWII Point & Click game?
Point & Click + World War II
Only 5 developers shipped a WWII 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, Grizzly Man, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced, ×4.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.7k against a market of $630. 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $13,323) |
| Top 5% | $14k (exactly $14,024) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 9 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- World War II
- 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
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 4,132 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.1k. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 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
Through the Darkest of Times 2020 · $350k 
My Child Lebensborn Remastered 2023 · $311k 
Torn Away 2023 · $268k 
Attentat 1942 2017 · $148k 
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures 2009 · $141k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Through the Darkest of Times | older | $14.99 | 778 85% | 23k | $350k (exactly $349,867) | Paintbucket Games |
| | 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 |
| | Attentat 1942 | older | $10.99 | 448 92% | 13k | $148k (exactly $147,706) | Charles Games |
| | Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures | older | $14.99 | 314 89% | 9.4k | $141k (exactly $141,206) | Telltale |
 | 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.) |
 | The Dark Inside Me | older | $5.99 | 167 64% | 5.0k | $30k (exactly $30,010) | Akçay Karaazmak |
 | Save One More | older | $4.99 | 187 62% | 5.6k | $28k (exactly $27,994) | Stas Shostak |
 | Encoded War | older | $11.99 | 48 77% | 1.4k | $17k (exactly $17,266) | Somnolent Team |
 | Grizzly Man | $8.99 | 52 90% | 1.6k | $14k (exactly $14,024) | LCB Game Studio | |
 | Grief like a stray dog | $4.99 | 89 98% | 2.7k | $13k (exactly $13,323) | Rayonist | |
 | Get In Get Out | $3.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | Wessi | |
 | The Syndicate: Classified Operations | $4.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | A and I Software | |
 | Summer of Hengyang in 1944 | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | LI XITAO |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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