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Should I ship a Time-Travel FPS?
FPS + Time Travel
Only 13 developers shipped a Time-Travel FPS 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, TEAM PANIC, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 29 more are announced, ×7.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $840 against a market of $1.5k. 29 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $838 (exactly $838) |
| Top 25% | $987 (exactly $987) |
| Top 5% | $9.9k (exactly $9,935) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 55 |
| Announced | 29 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 6210% on the market, supply 55% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- FPS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Time Travel
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- FPS
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 66% positive over 190 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 29 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Titanfall® 2 2020 · $229M 
BioShock Infinite 2013 · $99M 
Singularity™ 2010 · $4.9M 
TimeShift™ 2009 · $678k 
Chop Goblins 2022 · $431k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Titanfall® 2 | older | $29.99 | 255,050 95% | 7.7M | $229M (exactly $229,468,485) | Respawn Entertainment |
| | BioShock Infinite | older | $29.99 | 109,718 93% | 3.3M | $99M (exactly $98,713,285) | Irrational Games, Virtual Programming (… (Irrational Games, Virtual Programming (Linux)) |
| | Singularity™ | older | $29.99 | 5,487 93% | 165k | $4.9M (exactly $4,936,654) | Raven Software |
| | TimeShift™ | older | $19.99 | 1,131 80% | 34k | $678k (exactly $678,261) | Saber Interactive |
| | Chop Goblins | older | $4.99 | 2,881 97% | 86k | $431k (exactly $431,286) | David Szymanski |
 | Time Warpers | older | $19.99 | 493 82% | 15k | $296k (exactly $295,652) | Proton Studio Inc |
 | Supplice | · EA older | $14.99 | 533 87% | 16k | $240k (exactly $239,690) | Mekworx |
 | Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality | older | $24.99 | 275 59% | 8.3k | $206k (exactly $206,168) | Maze Theory Ltd, Just Add Water (Develo… (Maze Theory Ltd, Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd.) |
 | Daikatana | older | $6.99 | 806 58% | 24k | $169k (exactly $169,018) | Ion Storm |
 | Time Rifters | older | $9.99 | 395 87% | 12k | $118k (exactly $118,382) | Proton Studio Inc |
 | TEAM PANIC | $3.99 | 83 62% | 2.5k | $9.9k (exactly $9,935) | Furko | |
 | Temporal Purge: Z | $4.99 | 56 85% | 1.7k | $8.4k (exactly $8,383) | Exec Games | |
 | The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition | $9.99 | 21 33% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | {CRYTIME} | |
 | Temporal Gunslinger | $2.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $987 (exactly $987) | Ledan's Gift | |
 | Primal Reign : The Age of New Kings | $9.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | The Games Shed | |
 | Blue Hill Wendigo | $6.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Merchant Of Stories | |
 | Operation Dimera | $3.99 | 7 42% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | SupKai | |
 | 乾坤玺•明 | $8.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $539 (exactly $539) | 玉刃工作室 | |
 | William The Best Shooter | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | CYBERVIGILANT LABS LTD | |
 | TIME COWBOY | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | carlosfruitcup |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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