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Should I ship a Crime Bullet Time game?
Bullet Time + Crime
Only 9 developers shipped a Crime Bullet Time 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, Better Than Dead, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $540; 1 in 20 cleared $670k, ×1074 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $539 (exactly $539) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $17k (exactly $16,776) |
| Top 5% | $675k (exactly $674,550) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 9 |
| 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 80% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Crime
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Bullet Time
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 28,804 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $540. 9 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Bullet Time with a different setting or mood, 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
Max Payne 2011 · $3.8M 
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne 2008 · $3.6M 
Better Than Dead 2026 · EA · $675k 
Fast and Low 2023 · $441k 
Jackal 2026 · $268k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Max Payne | older | $9.99 | 12,773 88% | 383k | $3.8M (exactly $3,828,068) | Remedy Entertainment |
| | Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne | older | $9.99 | 12,102 93% | 363k | $3.6M (exactly $3,626,969) | Remedy Entertainment |
| | Better Than Dead | · EA | $14.99 | 1,500 72% | 45k | $675k (exactly $674,550) | MONTE GALLO |
| | Fast and Low | older | $19.99 | 736 82% | 22k | $441k (exactly $441,379) | Urban Giraffe Games Inc. |
| | Jackal | $14.99 | 596 88% | 18k | $268k (exactly $268,021) | Transhuman Design | |
 | NightClub Simulator | · EA older | $6.99 | 869 92% | 26k | $182k (exactly $182,229) | mandegames |
 | Pirate Hunter | $6.99 | 80 87% | 2.4k | $17k (exactly $16,776) | DIOsoft | |
 | Mr. Fast | older | $4.99 | 105 79% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,718) | ZHANG FAN |
 | TwinCop | older | $14.99 | 28 89% | 840 | $13k (exactly $12,592) | Finite Reflection Studios |
 | Timothy vs the Aliens | older | $16.99 | 15 73% | 450 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | WildSphere |
 | Bullet Noir | $11.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | WOLCEN Studio | |
 | Bodycam:Adrenaline | $9.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Rocket Game | |
 | Favela Defender | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Palmsoft Games | |
 | Rosa Inferna | $5.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | OZNA STUDIO | |
 | The Ballad of a True Thug | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Aces | |
 | Rob & Go | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gamecreame |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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