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Should I ship a Bullet Time Flight game?
Flight + Bullet Time
Only 10 developers shipped a Bullet Time Flight 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, Cosmo Riders, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $60 in the last 2 years and $60 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $60 (exactly $60) |
| Top 25% | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 5% | $2.3k (exactly $2,274) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 20 |
| 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 85% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Flight
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Bullet Time
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Flight, Bullet Time
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 87% positive over 32 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Disassembly 3D 2017 · $278k 
Comanche 2021 · $193k 
Disassembly VR 2019 · $141k 
CyberThreat 2016 · EA · $56k 
Rocket Assault: Downhill Rush 2023 · $50k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Disassembly 3D | older | $29.99 | 309 81% | 9.3k | $278k (exactly $278,007) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | Comanche | older | $19.99 | 322 51% | 9.7k | $193k (exactly $193,103) | NUKKLEAR, Ashborne Games |
| | Disassembly VR | older | $29.99 | 157 59% | 4.7k | $141k (exactly $141,253) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | CyberThreat | · EA older | $19.99 | 94 73% | 2.8k | $56k (exactly $56,372) | Enigmatic |
| | Rocket Assault: Downhill Rush | older | $7.99 | 209 92% | 6.3k | $50k (exactly $50,097) | Giovanni Elgert |
 | Avium | older | $29.99 | 26 76% | 780 | $23k (exactly $23,392) | The Robot |
 | Hyper Echelon | older | $12.99 | 53 88% | 1.6k | $21k (exactly $20,654) | GangoGames LLC |
 | Bakemono - Demon Brigade Tenmen Unit 01 | · EA older | $19.99 | 17 70% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | SuperSane Games |
 | Putin Destroys Alien | older | $4.90 | 37 91% | 1.1k | $5.4k (exactly $5,439) | Boris the Bear |
 | Vector Prospector | older | $7.99 | 21 80% | 630 | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) | SpinAttack Studio |
 | Cosmo Riders | $3.99 | 19 89% | 570 | $2.3k (exactly $2,274) | Conversion7 | |
 | JETPACK BIRDIE | $4.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Alexey Kuleshov | |
 | Flight Weapon | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Dying Tiger Studios AB | |
 | Ghost of Kyiv | $2.04 | 1 100% | 30 | $61 (exactly $61) | Jonald | |
 | 太和的疯狂农场 Taihe's Crazy Farm | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | 太和独游匠 | |
 | Shooting Aircraft | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | zjf | |
 | Blue Crow | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Samet MUMCU | |
 | Our War: Firepower Suppression | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chengdu Old Man | |
 | Nebula Live: Galactic trials | $9.73 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | KaamosGames | |
 | Finish The Dishes! | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Fractbit |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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