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Should I ship a Time Attack Action-Adventure?
Action-Adventure + Time Attack
Only 12 developers shipped a Time Attack Action-Adventure 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, DEADLINE DELIVERY, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150, ×0.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $140k, ×228 the market median. Revenue is up 10645% on the market; 17 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) |
| Top 5% | $143k (exactly $143,454) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 17 |
| 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 10645% on the market, supply 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action-Adventure
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Time Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Action-Adventure, Time Attack
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 89% positive over 530 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 17 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Action-Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MinigamesFair
- + BikesFair
- + TransportationFair
- + MotorbikeFair
- + TypingLong shot
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Villain ProtagonistPoor odds
- + Naval CombatPoor odds
Comparable games
Mirror's Edge™ 2009 · $19M 
Mr. Shifty 2017 · $384k 
DEADLINE DELIVERY 2026 · $143k 
Remnants of Naezith 2018 · $132k 
Hoverflow 2026 · $67k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mirror's Edge™ | older | $19.99 | 31,195 87% | 936k | $19M (exactly $18,707,642) | DICE |
| | Mr. Shifty | older | $14.99 | 855 88% | 26k | $384k (exactly $384,494) | Team Shifty |
| | DEADLINE DELIVERY | $14.99 | 319 85% | 9.6k | $143k (exactly $143,454) | GOOD1 Studios | |
| | Remnants of Naezith | older | $9.99 | 440 95% | 13k | $132k (exactly $131,868) | Tolga Ay |
| | Hoverflow | $14.99 | 150 93% | 4.5k | $67k (exactly $67,455) | Simon In Motion | |
 | Whitewater VR: Extreme Kayaking Adventure | older | $19.99 | 82 81% | 2.5k | $49k (exactly $49,175) | Adam Horvath |
 | Skybolt Zack | older | $13.99 | 57 89% | 1.7k | $24k (exactly $23,923) | ISART, DEVS MUST DIE |
 | Super Dangerous Dungeons | older | $4.99 | 106 98% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,868) | Adventure Islands |
 | TOSS!🍌 | older | $9.99 | 45 93% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $13,486) | Agera Games |
 | Aefen Fall | older | $6.99 | 60 66% | 1.8k | $13k (exactly $12,582) | Studio 9.7 |
 | Ticking Together | $4.99 | 37 97% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Furkan Baytak, Furkan Özkaya | |
 | The Confinement | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Mr. Dev Studio | |
 | Marble Quest | · EA | $4.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Wolf Developer, ReelablePenny14 |
 | Cube Jumper VR | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Pixart Games | |
 | Kimbow Escape | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Tapeti Games | |
 | Darwin | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jaden Duchene | |
 | CottonTail | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Cactus Patch Games LLC | |
 | Skunked: Way of the Spray | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mephitideus Interactive LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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