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Should I ship a Time Management 6DOF game?
6DOF + Time Management
Only 11 developers shipped a Time Management 6DOF 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, Coffee Quest VR, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $7.7k, ×12 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 14 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $718 (exactly $718) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 5% | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 70% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 6DOF
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Time Management
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF, Time Management
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 68 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
6DOF with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RoguelikeFair
- + TacticalFair
- + RobotsFair
- + WarFair
- + Dark FantasyFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + RhythmPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
Fast Food Manager 2021 · $107k 
Cook-Out 2021 · $101k 
The Cooking Game VR 2024 · $31k 
Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending 2024 · $22k 
Coffee Quest VR 2024 · $7.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fast Food Manager | older | $14.99 | 238 69% | 7.1k | $107k (exactly $107,029) | Cyber Eye |
| | Cook-Out | older | $19.99 | 169 89% | 5.1k | $101k (exactly $101,349) | Resolution Games |
| | The Cooking Game VR | older | $19.99 | 51 70% | 1.5k | $31k (exactly $30,585) | Play Spirit Limited |
| | Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending | older | $14.99 | 48 85% | 1.4k | $22k (exactly $21,586) | Foggy Box Games |
| | Coffee Quest VR | $9.99 | 26 88% | 780 | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) | Keycap Games LLC | |
 | Astro Chef | older | $19.99 | 9 33% | 270 | $5.4k (exactly $5,397) | Fusion |
 | Pipeline VR | older | $9.50 | 14 100% | 420 | $4.0k (exactly $3,990) | Everwake Games |
 | Freelancer Life Simulator | older | $3.99 | 32 25% | 960 | $3.8k (exactly $3,830) | DiamosDev |
 | Beers and Boomerangs | older | $4.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | Witty Platypus |
 | Phantom Asylum VR | · EA | $9.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | SRVR |
 | Shopenkraft's Magic Goods | $14.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Ingenious Studios | |
 | Ambulance Driver Life VR | $7.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | İNİTİUM STUDİO | |
 | Glow Cubes | $4.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Ross' Toybox | |
 | Going Loco | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | David Addis | |
 | Memory Keeper | $12.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $779 (exactly $779) | Doru.best | |
 | Squared Straight | $2.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $718 (exactly $718) | Ross the Dev | |
 | Misery Nights | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | DesignLab | |
 | Lazy Writer | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | Pavel Urakov |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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