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Should I ship a Time-Travel Hack and Slash game?
Hack and Slash + Time Travel
Only 11 developers shipped a Time-Travel Hack and Slash 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, Ascend to ZERO, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×4.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.8k, ×7.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.5k; 1 in 20 cleared $310k, ×497 the market median. Revenue is up 545% on the market; 23 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) |
| Top 25% | $63k (exactly $63,145) |
| Top 5% | $312k (exactly $311,860) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 545% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hack and Slash
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Time Travel
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Hack and Slash
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 1,476 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hack and Slash with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Turn-BasedStrong odds
- + Turn-Based CombatStrong odds
- + VampiresFair
- + ModernFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + RomancePoor odds
- + Visual NovelPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
Comparable games
Last Epoch 2024 · $112M 
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time 2008 · $1.5M 
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™ 2008 · $1.2M 
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™ 2008 · $804k 
Omensight: Definitive Edition 2018 · $704k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Last Epoch | older | $34.99 | 106,364 76% | 3.2M | $112M (exactly $111,650,291) | Eleventh Hour Games |
| | Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time | older | $9.99 | 5,045 85% | 151k | $1.5M (exactly $1,511,986) | Kudosoft |
| | Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™ | older | $9.99 | 3,933 82% | 118k | $1.2M (exactly $1,178,720) | Ubisoft |
| | Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™ | older | $9.99 | 2,683 80% | 80k | $804k (exactly $804,095) | Ubisoft Montreal |
| | Omensight: Definitive Edition | older | $19.99 | 1,174 88% | 35k | $704k (exactly $704,048) | Spearhead Games |
 | Ascend to ZERO | $11.99 | 867 82% | 26k | $312k (exactly $311,860) | Flyway Games, Inc. | |
 | Time Treker | $6.99 | 399 65% | 12k | $84k (exactly $83,670) | Fuse Game | |
 | Mist Slayer | older | $7.99 | 305 64% | 9.2k | $73k (exactly $73,108) | Moju Games |
 | PROJECT TACHYON | $17.99 | 117 83% | 3.5k | $63k (exactly $63,145) | STUDIO N9 | |
 | Time Survivors | older | $4.99 | 272 61% | 8.2k | $41k (exactly $40,718) | Lunar Chili |
 | Mai: Child of Ages | $14.99 | 34 88% | 1.0k | $15k (exactly $15,290) | Chubby Pixel | |
 | Clockfall | · EA | $9.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Rever Games GmbH |
 | RuinsStory | $9.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | ilili_world | |
 | Knights In A Different SpaceTime | $11.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $4.0k (exactly $3,957) | Destreon Games | |
 | Death Kid | $4.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Crooked Games | |
 | Oldish Stuff | · EA | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Mergy Games |
 | Paragon Of Time | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Webcess |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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