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Should I ship a Bullet Time Level Editor game?
Bullet Time + Level Editor
Only 7 developers shipped a Bullet Time Level Editor 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, Plastic Battlegrounds, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.4k, ×3.8 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $630; 1 in 20 cleared $84k, ×134 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 12 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $628 (exactly $628) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,397) |
| Top 25% | $23k (exactly $23,077) |
| Top 5% | $84k (exactly $84,216) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, 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
- Level Editor
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Bullet Time, Level Editor
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 17,767 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. 12 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Bullet Time with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Severed Steel 2021 · $6.7M 
Pistol Whip 2019 · $3.2M 
Maximum Action 2018 · EA · $2.2M 
Cobalt 2016 · $153k 
Warstride Challenges 2023 · $145k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Severed Steel | older | $24.99 | 8,880 95% | 266k | $6.7M (exactly $6,657,336) | Greylock Studio |
| | Pistol Whip | older | $29.99 | 3,586 94% | 108k | $3.2M (exactly $3,226,324) | Cloudhead Games Ltd. |
| | Maximum Action | · EA older | $19.99 | 3,674 89% | 110k | $2.2M (exactly $2,203,298) | George Mandell |
| | Cobalt | older | $14.99 | 341 92% | 10k | $153k (exactly $153,348) | Oxeye Game Studio |
| | Warstride Challenges | older | $19.99 | 242 89% | 7.3k | $145k (exactly $145,127) | Dream Powered Games |
 | Soundodger 2 | older | $19.99 | 185 95% | 5.6k | $111k (exactly $110,944) | Studio Bean |
 | Soldat 2 | · EA older | $7.99 | 386 85% | 12k | $93k (exactly $92,524) | Transhuman Design |
 | Plastic Battlegrounds | · EA | $9.99 | 281 89% | 8.4k | $84k (exactly $84,216) | Simulated Minds |
 | Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator | older | $19.99 | 87 78% | 2.6k | $52k (exactly $52,174) | KreizLand Games |
 | Pro Gymnast Simulator | older | $14.99 | 105 92% | 3.2k | $47k (exactly $47,218) | Walaber Entertainment LLC |
 | 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 |
 | AI Games | $59.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $3.6k (exactly $3,599) | SUNYU Games | |
 | INJECTION | $7.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $2.4k (exactly $2,397) | ButterCorp | |
 | Domain of Hallucination | · EA | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Wid… (Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Widmer, Jonas Wiesli, rnaisa) |
 | Go Marbles! | · EA | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Aaron Balint |
 | Cyber Spartan | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | PLICA GAMES |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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