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Should I ship a Time Management Action-Adventure?
Action-Adventure + Time Management
Of 117 developers who shipped a Time Management Action-Adventure in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 214 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $230k, ×370 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 214 games are announced against 67 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) |
| Top 25% | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) |
| Top 5% | $232k (exactly $232,495) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 117 |
| Released games | 274 |
| Announced | 214 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 55% on the market, supply 35% more 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.
- Action-Adventure
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Time Management
- 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 Management; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Exploration
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $17.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, Story Rich, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $17.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 40,255 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 8 in 10 of the 59 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 214 games are announced against 67 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action-Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + MinigamesFair
- + BikesFair
- + TransportationFair
- + MotorbikeFair
- + TypingLong shot
- + Time AttackLong shot
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Villain ProtagonistPoor odds
Comparable games
Lethal Company 2023 · EA · $123M 
The Blood of Dawnwalker 2026 · $33M 
The Alters 2025 · $16M 
Pacify 2019 · $4.9M 
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster 2024 · $4.5M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Lethal Company | · EA older | $9.99 | 411,550 97% | 12M | $123M (exactly $123,341,535) | Zeekerss |
| | The Blood of Dawnwalker | $69.99 | 15,789 86% | 474k | $33M (exactly $33,152,163) | Rebel Wolves | |
| | The Alters | $34.99 | 15,330 90% | 460k | $16M (exactly $16,091,901) | 11 bit studios | |
| | Pacify | older | $4.99 | 32,921 86% | 988k | $4.9M (exactly $4,928,274) | Shawn Hitchcock |
| | Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster | $49.99 | 2,971 80% | 89k | $4.5M (exactly $4,455,609) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. | |
 | Murky Divers | $8.99 | 3,981 87% | 119k | $1.1M (exactly $1,073,676) | Embers | |
 | Happy's Humble Burger Farm | older | $19.99 | 1,704 93% | 51k | $1.0M (exactly $1,021,889) | Scythe Dev Team |
 | Green Hell VR | older | $19.99 | 1,143 57% | 34k | $685k (exactly $685,457) | Incuvo |
 | The Wild at Heart | older | $24.99 | 722 95% | 22k | $541k (exactly $541,283) | Moonlight Kids |
 | Subterrain: Mines of Titan | older | $19.99 | 657 75% | 20k | $394k (exactly $394,003) | Pixellore Inc |
 | Emergency Call - The Firefighting Simulation 3 | · EA | $24.99 | 370 71% | 11k | $277k (exactly $277,389) | Crenetic GmbH Studios |
 | SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure | $14.99 | 517 70% | 16k | $232k (exactly $232,495) | kopiforge | |
 | Captain Blood | $24.99 | 266 77% | 8.0k | $199k (exactly $199,420) | Seawolf Studio, General Arcade | |
 | the cabin game | · EA | $11.99 | 362 86% | 11k | $130k (exactly $130,211) | Twisted Corridor👻 |
 | 生嚿叉燒好過生你 | $14.99 | 284 88% | 8.5k | $128k (exactly $127,715) | 無厘頭遊戲工作室 | |
 | Don't Panic! It is Just Turbulence | $7.99 | 385 72% | 12k | $92k (exactly $92,284) | Harmonia Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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