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Should I ship a Bullet Time Puzzle game?
Bullet Time + Puzzle
Only 19 developers shipped a Bullet Time Puzzle 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, Time Hacker, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 38 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 10 developers shipped in the last year and 38 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $10,793) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 80 |
| Announced | 38 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 125% on the market, supply 10% 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.
- Bullet Time
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Puzzle
- effort 2 / 10 · high · discrete rules, levels are data
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Bullet Time, Puzzle; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Arcade
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Colorful, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 126 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 38 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 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
SUPERHOT 2016 · $21M 
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE 2020 · $6.9M 
SUPERHOT VR 2017 · $6.0M 
Gravity Field 2023 · $700k 
Iron Danger 2020 · $326k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SUPERHOT | older | $24.99 | 27,765 91% | 833k | $21M (exactly $20,815,420) | SUPERHOT Team |
| | SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE | older | $24.99 | 9,247 85% | 277k | $6.9M (exactly $6,932,476) | SUPERHOT Team |
| | SUPERHOT VR | older | $24.99 | 7,978 82% | 239k | $6.0M (exactly $5,981,107) | SUPERHOT Team |
| | Gravity Field | older | $29.99 | 778 79% | 23k | $700k (exactly $699,967) | Kazakov Studios |
| | Iron Danger | older | $19.99 | 544 73% | 16k | $326k (exactly $326,237) | Action Squad Studios |
 | Disassembly 3D | older | $29.99 | 309 81% | 9.3k | $278k (exactly $278,007) | Khor Chin Heong |
 | Ary and the Secret of Seasons | older | $39.99 | 134 64% | 4.0k | $161k (exactly $160,760) | eXiin, Fishing Cactus |
 | Disassembly VR | older | $29.99 | 157 59% | 4.7k | $141k (exactly $141,253) | Khor Chin Heong |
 | Time Lock VR 2 | older | $12.99 | 170 88% | 5.1k | $66k (exactly $66,249) | WR-VRG |
 | Red Ronin | older | $7.99 | 119 87% | 3.6k | $29k (exactly $28,524) | Wired Dreams Studio |
 | Time Hacker | $14.99 | 24 70% | 720 | $11k (exactly $10,793) | Joy Way | |
 | Nekomancer of Nowhere | $6.99 | 42 97% | 1.3k | $8.8k (exactly $8,807) | Standing Cat | |
 | Tangled Crisis | $5.59 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.8k (exactly $1,845) | Long Sleeve Games | |
 | Arrive In Time | $3.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Hade Games | |
 | PathUp! | $6.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) | Geghamyan Hrachya | |
 | Temporal Gunslinger | $2.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $987 (exactly $987) | Ledan's Gift | |
 | 白色归途 | $3.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | M芒果ngo | |
 | Zombie Self-Cultivation | $9.90 | 2 50% | 60 | $594 (exactly $594) | LangBubai | |
 | Honest Helper | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Adam Robichaux | |
 | Gun Predict | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Gabry Corti |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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