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Should I ship a Capitalist Time Manipulation game?
Time Manipulation + Capitalism
Only 9 developers shipped a Capitalist Time Manipulation 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, Hotel Architect, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×3.8 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $240. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
| Top 25% | $41k (exactly $40,923) |
| Top 5% | $1.7M (exactly $1,740,020) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 250% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Time Manipulation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Capitalism
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Time Manipulation
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $6.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 3,777 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Time Manipulation with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + ModernFair
- + PsychologicalFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
- + Choose Your Own AdventurePoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + DetectivePoor odds
- + NoirPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
Comparable games
Hotel Architect 2026 · $1.7M 
NUTS 2021 · $663k 
SeaOrama: World of Shipping 2023 · $229k 
Check Inn 2025 · $89k 
Oasis Mission: Colony Sim 2025 · $41k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hotel Architect | $29.99 | 1,934 94% | 58k | $1.7M (exactly $1,740,020) | Pathos Interactive | |
| | NUTS | older | $24.99 | 884 88% | 27k | $663k (exactly $662,735) | Joon, Pol, Muutsch, Char & Torfi |
| | SeaOrama: World of Shipping | older | $19.99 | 382 58% | 11k | $229k (exactly $229,085) | Hidden Tower, SeaOrama |
| | Check Inn | $14.99 | 197 84% | 5.9k | $89k (exactly $88,591) | KishMish Games | |
| | Oasis Mission: Colony Sim | $14.99 | 91 56% | 2.7k | $41k (exactly $40,923) | Lunar pug studio | |
 | Mobiles Tycoon | older | $5.99 | 177 83% | 5.3k | $32k (exactly $31,807) | Insignis Games |
 | Spaceport Trading Company | · EA older | $14.99 | 33 87% | 990 | $15k (exactly $14,840) | Digital Tectonics, LLC |
 | Day Trade Coach | $14.99 | 17 47% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | Ragnar Beaucoup | |
 | Timeworks | older | $4.99 | 51 100% | 1.5k | $7.6k (exactly $7,635) | Starworks Studios |
 | Modern Game Tycoon | older | $10.99 | 11 18% | 330 | $3.6k (exactly $3,627) | NordCode |
 | ZAVOD: Conveyor Logic | $4.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Growfall Games | |
 | Ultimate Car Company Tycoon | · EA | $6.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Tengrava Games |
 | Hexagon Madness | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Zakary Mitrovic, Mathis Leblanc | |
 | THE BEST INVESTOR | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | THE FRENCH GRINDER | |
 | The Dream Of Winning The Lottery | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gamjangjangi |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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