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Should I ship a Futuristic Quick-Time Events game?
Quick-Time Events + Futuristic
Of 24 developers who shipped a Futuristic Quick-Time Events game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $420 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 4 / 10 build. 18 developers shipped in the last year and 35 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $135 (exactly $135) |
|---|---|
| Median | $418 (exactly $418) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 5% | $13k (exactly $13,486) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 24 |
| Released games | 63 |
| Announced | 35 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 down 70% on the market, supply 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Quick-Time Events
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Futuristic
- 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
- Quick-Time Events; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Arcade, Bullet Hell
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $16.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Stylized, 3D, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $16.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 61,405 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $140. 9 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 35 games are announced against 18 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Quick-Time Events with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015 · $284M 
Stellar Blade™ 2025 · $110M 
Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare 2016 · $31M 
Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition 2014 · $13M 
反转21克 2024 · $275k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Call of Duty®: Black Ops III | older | $59.99 | 157,694 88% | 4.7M | $284M (exactly $283,801,892) | Treyarch, Aspyr (Mac) |
| | Stellar Blade™ | $59.99 | 61,289 93% | 1.8M | $110M (exactly $110,301,813) | SHIFT UP Corporation | |
| | Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare | older | $59.99 | 17,489 65% | 525k | $31M (exactly $31,474,953) | Infinity Ward |
| | Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition | older | $39.99 | 11,103 64% | 333k | $13M (exactly $13,320,269) | Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software |
| | 反转21克 | older | $8.99 | 1,020 72% | 31k | $275k (exactly $275,094) | 想象颗粒 |
 | Rocket Assault: Downhill Rush | older | $7.99 | 209 92% | 6.3k | $50k (exactly $50,097) | Giovanni Elgert |
 | A.D. 2047 | older | $19.99 | 79 62% | 2.4k | $47k (exactly $47,376) | Leenzee Games |
 | Aerial_Knight's Never Yield | older | $4.99 | 102 79% | 3.1k | $15k (exactly $15,269) | Aerial_Knight |
 | Disco Samurai | $9.99 | 45 88% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $13,486) | Pixel Fiber Games | |
 | Rayland | older | $2.99 | 86 91% | 2.6k | $7.7k (exactly $7,714) | Naoka Games |
 | Rage Room: Catharsis | $16.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $3.1k (exactly $3,058) | Revino Games | |
 | 5 Minutes Until Self-Destruction | $1.99 | 28 96% | 840 | $1.7k (exactly $1,672) | Part Time Monkey | |
 | SeaQuestDungeon | $7.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | AlchemistGame | |
 | Thunder Infinity | $4.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Enrique G. Galvez | |
 | Customer Disservice | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Sudden Frog | |
 | Fumpers: Dual Realms | $1.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $597 (exactly $597) | Fırat Kurt, KurtSoft | |
 | DeadEndGram | $1.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $537 (exactly $537) | Michael Morgan | |
 | 100 Wars | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | 文艺复兴雪 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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