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Should I ship a Time-Travel Precision Platformer?
Precision Platformer + Time Travel
Only 3 developers shipped a Time-Travel Precision Platformer in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 10 did: 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.. 11 more are announced, ×11 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.5k against a market of $480. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $839 (exactly $839) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) |
| Top 5% | $118k (exactly $117,741) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Time Travel
- 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
- Precision Platformer
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 546 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 11 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×11 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Precision Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + FPSFair
- + GothicFair
- + HorrorFair
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + SandboxFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
- + RPGFair
Comparable games
Space Accident VR 2025 · $118k 
Dofamine VR 2025 · $52k 
Ingression 2024 · $21k 
Unfair Rampage: Knightfall 2025 · $2.5k 
Lion Quest 2016 · $2.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Space Accident VR | $16.99 | 231 82% | 6.9k | $118k (exactly $117,741) | VR-WRG | |
| | Dofamine VR | $9.99 | 173 82% | 5.2k | $52k (exactly $51,848) | VR-WRG | |
| | Ingression | older | $9.99 | 70 87% | 2.1k | $21k (exactly $20,979) | Espale Studios |
| | Unfair Rampage: Knightfall | $5.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Imphenzia | |
| | Lion Quest | older | $5.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | Dracula's Cave |
 | Always The Same Nightmare | older | $11.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | DreamVeloper Studio |
 | Enionax | older | $2.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $1.3k (exactly $1,256) | PapStache |
 | Parallel Shift | older | $1.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $1.3k (exactly $1,254) | Insightful Games |
 | SOULBOUND | older | $9.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Parley Games |
 | Blink God | older | $13.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $839 (exactly $839) | Kaleido, Inc. |
 | POGO Epoch: Impossible 99% | · EA | $5.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | 힉학헉 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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