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Should I ship a Bullet Time Adventure game?
Bullet Time + Adventure
Of 75 developers who shipped a Bullet Time Adventure game 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.. 159 more are announced, ×5.3 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 $210; 1 in 20 cleared $97k, ×156 the market median. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 159 games are announced against 30 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) |
| Top 5% | $98k (exactly $97,751) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 75 |
| Released games | 293 |
| Announced | 159 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 10% on the market, supply 35% 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.
- Bullet Time
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Adventure
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Bullet Time, Adventure; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Shooter, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Stylized, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 6,281 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 9 in 10 of the 50 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 159 games are announced against 30 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Bullet Time with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + NoirFair
- + LogicFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + LootFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + StrategyFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + Quick-Time EventsLong shot
- + On-Rails ShooterLong shot
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Beat 'em upPoor odds
Comparable games
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Quantum Break 2016 · $28M 
SUPERHOT 2016 · $21M 
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger 2013 · $9.4M 
SUPERHOT VR 2017 · $6.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Max Payne 3 | older | $19.99 | 55,150 86% | 1.7M | $33M (exactly $33,073,455) | Rockstar Studios |
| | Quantum Break | older | $39.99 | 23,141 86% | 694k | $28M (exactly $27,762,258) | Remedy Entertainment |
| | SUPERHOT | older | $24.99 | 27,765 91% | 833k | $21M (exactly $20,815,420) | SUPERHOT Team |
| | Call of Juarez: Gunslinger | older | $14.99 | 20,869 94% | 626k | $9.4M (exactly $9,384,789) | Techland |
| | SUPERHOT VR | older | $24.99 | 7,978 82% | 239k | $6.0M (exactly $5,981,107) | SUPERHOT Team |
 | Singularity™ | older | $29.99 | 5,487 93% | 165k | $4.9M (exactly $4,936,654) | Raven Software |
 | F.E.A.R. 3 | older | $19.99 | 7,407 69% | 222k | $4.4M (exactly $4,441,978) | Day 1 Studios |
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 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 | older | $9.99 | 13,694 75% | 411k | $4.1M (exactly $4,104,092) | City Interactive |
 | Max Payne | older | $9.99 | 12,773 88% | 383k | $3.8M (exactly $3,828,068) | Remedy Entertainment |
 | Killer Bean | · EA | $14.99 | 2,272 73% | 68k | $1.0M (exactly $1,021,718) | Killer Bean Studios LLC |
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 | Guns of Fury | $14.99 | 950 88% | 29k | $427k (exactly $427,215) | Gelato Games Ltd | |
 | Devilated | $19.99 | 163 85% | 4.9k | $98k (exactly $97,751) | Trunka | |
 | Gun Frog | $4.99 | 433 94% | 13k | $65k (exactly $64,820) | Zoteling | |
 | Asterogues | $14.99 | 83 90% | 2.5k | $37k (exactly $37,325) | pipotchi600 | |
 | SignaNota | $9.99 | 90 94% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,973) | IvoryHand | |
 | Sniper Camouflage Orange Spy Warrior I Buried Two Bodies in the Garden and the Police Haven't Figured Out Yet That They're Missing Because They Were a Lonely Old Couple Who Had No Relatives Simulator 2026 | · EA | $9.99 | 77 66% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,077) | The Only Way Out |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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