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Should I ship a Psychological Quick-Time Events game?
Quick-Time Events + Psychological
Only 17 developers shipped a Psychological Quick-Time Events 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, Go To Sleep, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 31 more are announced, ×3.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.9 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $7.1k, ×15 the market median. Revenue is up 40% on the market; 31 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $1.3k (exactly $1,259) |
| Top 5% | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 31 |
| 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 up 40% on the market, supply 10% 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.
- Quick-Time Events
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Psychological
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Quick-Time Events; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Logic, Puzzle
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $8.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, First-Person, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $8.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 134 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 31 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Quick-Time Events with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + FlightFair
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Comparable games
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me 2022 · $4.5M 
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope 2020 · $4.3M 
EDENGATE: The Edge of Life 2022 · $43k 
Of Bird and Cage 2021 · $40k 
Doodle Adventure of Chameleon 2024 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me | older | $39.99 | 3,778 56% | 113k | $4.5M (exactly $4,532,467) | Supermassive Games |
| | The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope | older | $19.99 | 7,202 74% | 216k | $4.3M (exactly $4,319,039) | Supermassive Games |
| | EDENGATE: The Edge of Life | older | $6.99 | 204 68% | 6.1k | $43k (exactly $42,779) | 505 Pulse |
| | Of Bird and Cage | older | $9.99 | 135 79% | 4.1k | $40k (exactly $40,460) | Capricia Productions |
| | Doodle Adventure of Chameleon | older | $8.99 | 58 94% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $15,643) | Cube of Cube |
 | The Day Before You Gone | older | $8.99 | 44 70% | 1.3k | $12k (exactly $11,867) | Aequalis Studio |
 | Go To Sleep | $6.99 | 34 82% | 1.0k | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) | YuRo Games | |
 | EmyLiveShow: How To Write A Bestseller | $8.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Team Emily | |
 | 15th Prison | $3.99 | 28 92% | 840 | $3.4k (exactly $3,352) | Zettanium | |
 | Demonic Blade | older | $4.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | Mikołaj Spychał |
 | 5 Minutes Until Self-Destruction | $1.99 | 28 96% | 840 | $1.7k (exactly $1,672) | Part Time Monkey | |
 | Yellowcreek Stories - The Cabin Watcher | $10.49 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.3k (exactly $1,259) | Carlos Azuaga | |
 | The Locked Room | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Alexey Sudarikov | |
 | Addy | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Sofia Gyger | |
 | 独特的友谊 - Special Friendship | $2.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | U0U0X幽灵 | |
 | Unforgivable | $2.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Mario Leal | |
 | Follow Nightmare | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | cr0cq |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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