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Should I ship a Bullet Time Stealth game?
Stealth + Bullet Time
Only 12 developers shipped a Bullet Time Stealth 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, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $320k, ×521 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 28 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $11k (exactly $10,793) |
| Top 5% | $327k (exactly $326,958) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 55% on the market, supply 100% 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.
- Stealth
- 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
- Stealth, Bullet Time
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 1,096 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
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Comparable games
Quantum Break 2016 · $28M 
Trepang2 2023 · $19M 
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 2013 · $4.1M 
Heat Signature 2017 · $3.1M 
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2013 · $1.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Quantum Break | older | $39.99 | 23,141 86% | 694k | $28M (exactly $27,762,258) | Remedy Entertainment |
| | Trepang2 | older | $39.99 | 15,774 93% | 473k | $19M (exactly $18,924,068) | Trepang Studios |
| | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 | older | $9.99 | 13,694 75% | 411k | $4.1M (exactly $4,104,092) | City Interactive |
| | Heat Signature | older | $14.99 | 6,849 94% | 205k | $3.1M (exactly $3,079,995) | Suspicious Developments |
| | Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army | older | $14.99 | 3,557 88% | 107k | $1.6M (exactly $1,599,583) | Rebellion |
 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior | older | $7.99 | 5,723 58% | 172k | $1.4M (exactly $1,371,803) | City Interactive |
 | Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 | older | $14.99 | 3,020 84% | 91k | $1.4M (exactly $1,358,094) | · |
 | Call of Juarez | older | $9.99 | 3,732 81% | 112k | $1.1M (exactly $1,118,480) | Techland |
 | El Paso, Elsewhere | older | $19.99 | 1,393 90% | 42k | $835k (exactly $835,382) | Strange Scaffold |
 | Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum | $12.99 | 839 98% | 25k | $327k (exactly $326,958) | nodayshalleraseyou | |
 | PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION | $13.99 | 178 87% | 5.3k | $75k (exactly $74,707) | Banana Hardsoft | |
 | Time Hacker | $14.99 | 24 70% | 720 | $11k (exactly $10,793) | Joy Way | |
 | MARKSMAN VR | · EA | $8.99 | 16 31% | 480 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Crimson Gate |
 | the Shadow of Swallow | $3.99 | 30 76% | 900 | $3.6k (exactly $3,591) | Raine Studio | |
 | ShadowStrikeVR | · EA | $9.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Charming Game Studio |
 | Rosa Inferna | $5.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | OZNA STUDIO | |
 | Blood And Blade | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | ZlabiGames | |
 | Intruder Alert | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Stylish Esper | |
 | Blue Crow | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Samet MUMCU |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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