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Should I ship a Bullet Time Quick-Time Events game?
Bullet Time + Quick-Time Events
Only 10 developers shipped a Bullet Time Quick-Time Events 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, Aim Assault, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $390, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $23k, ×37 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 15 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $390 (exactly $390) |
| Top 25% | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) |
| Top 5% | $23k (exactly $23,207) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Quick-Time Events
- 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, Quick-Time Events
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 73% positive over 66 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 15 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Bullet Time with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Boomer ShooterFair
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- + IncrementalFair
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- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Beat 'em upPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
Rocket Assault: Downhill Rush 2023 · $50k 
Aim Assault 2025 · $23k 
Angry Penguin 2024 · $20k 
Aerial_Knight's Never Yield 2021 · $15k 
Okay, Panic! 2019 · $5.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Rocket Assault: Downhill Rush | older | $7.99 | 209 92% | 6.3k | $50k (exactly $50,097) | Giovanni Elgert |
| | Aim Assault | $17.99 | 43 79% | 1.3k | $23k (exactly $23,207) | DIVR Labs | |
| | Angry Penguin | older | $1.99 | 328 92% | 9.8k | $20k (exactly $19,582) | PAIN PEPPER |
| | Aerial_Knight's Never Yield | older | $4.99 | 102 79% | 3.1k | $15k (exactly $15,269) | Aerial_Knight |
| | Okay, Panic! | older | $9.99 | 18 38% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Outer Harbour |
 | Aerial_Knight's We Never Yield | older | $14.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) | Aerial_Knight, BetaJester |
 | Dynamic Shooting VR | older | $9.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | Polyfun Games |
 | Tower of Doom | older | $14.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Finn Lichtenberg |
 | Boulette Hell | older | $6.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | Lucas Delvallet, Quentin Delvallet |
 | Rage Room: Catharsis | $16.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $3.1k (exactly $3,058) | Revino Games | |
 | KeyFortress | · EA | $7.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) | Daisen |
 | 100 Wars | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | 文艺复兴雪 | |
 | Type To Kill: Full-Motion Vengeance | $12.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | cptnoremac | |
 | Be My Lust 2 | $3.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | B Plus Studio | |
 | 太和的疯狂农场 Taihe's Crazy Farm | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | 太和独游匠 | |
 | Tennis | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hard Shark Games |
 | BiuBiu | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | GameFox | |
 | Divine Descent: Chu-Han | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Qingdao Qilin Ark Network Technology Co… (Qingdao Qilin Ark Network Technology Co.,Ltd.) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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