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Should I ship a Psychological Solitaire game?
Solitaire + Psychological
Only 13 developers shipped a Psychological Solitaire 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, Dark Atlas: Infernum, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.5 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $17k, ×37 the market median. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 21 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $720 (exactly $720) |
| Top 25% | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) |
| Top 5% | $18k (exactly $17,538) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 25% on the market, supply 60% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Solitaire
- effort 1 / 10 · high · fixed rules, cards and a table
- Psychological
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Solitaire
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 180 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Solitaire with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + ManagementFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + MahjongFair
- + RomanceFair
- + CraftingFair
- + SimulationFair
- + FantasyFair
- + TacticalFair
- + SportsFair
- + Turn-Based CombatFair
Comparable games
Tested on Humans: Escape Room 2021 · $130k 
Photogenic Minds : Identity 2022 · $53k 
Lenin - The Lion 2019 · $37k 
Dark Atlas: Infernum 2025 · $18k 
Tales of The Nightmares™ Episode One 2025 · $7.2k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tested on Humans: Escape Room | older | $9.99 | 434 87% | 13k | $130k (exactly $130,070) | mc2games |
| | Photogenic Minds : Identity | older | $19.99 | 89 88% | 2.7k | $53k (exactly $53,373) | 727 Not Hound |
| | Lenin - The Lion | older | $11.99 | 102 90% | 3.1k | $37k (exactly $36,689) | Lornyon |
| | Dark Atlas: Infernum | $14.99 | 39 82% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,538) | Night Council Studio | |
| | Tales of The Nightmares™ Episode One | $4.50 | 53 88% | 1.6k | $7.2k (exactly $7,155) | RedDot Studios | |
 | No Vacancy Tonight | $8.99 | 24 100% | 720 | $6.5k (exactly $6,473) | Momiji Games | |
 | Office Elevator | older | $4.99 | 37 81% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Punx Studios |
 | Roulette Heist | $6.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) | DreamArk Lab | |
 | Host 714 | older | $4.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | Tengukaze Studio |
 | Forest 6174 | $2.99 | 29 82% | 870 | $2.6k (exactly $2,601) | itandfeel | |
 | Aeternum Grand Plaza | $7.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | BD STUDIO | |
 | You Must Remember | $8.00 | 3 100% | 90 | $720 (exactly $720) | PotiGames | |
 | One Step Further | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | SlidMount | |
 | 桌面塔罗 Desktop Tarot | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | SpaceWizard64 | |
 | Talisman Maker - Mahjong Oracle | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Nalbam |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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