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Should I ship a Time Attack Puzzle Platformer?
Puzzle Platformer + Time Attack
Only 19 developers shipped a Time Attack Puzzle Platformer 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, Caromble!, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 11 developers shipped in the last year and 9 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) |
| Top 5% | $13k (exactly $13,250) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 68 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 down 50% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Puzzle Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Time Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Puzzle Platformer, Time Attack; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Platformer, Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Stylized, 2D, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 171 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Puzzle Platformer with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RomanceFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Life SimFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Grid-Based MovementFair
- + SokobanFair
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
- + Co-op CampaignPoor odds
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Split ScreenPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Marble It Up! Ultra 2018 · $954k 
EDGE 2011 · $383k 
10 Second Ninja X 2016 · $92k 
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition 2018 · $45k 
Offspring Fling! 2012 · $33k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Marble It Up! Ultra | older | $29.99 | 1,060 93% | 32k | $954k (exactly $953,682) | Blueteak, The Engine Company, Shapes an… (Blueteak, The Engine Company, Shapes and Lines, Arcturus Interactive, The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild) |
| | EDGE | older | $6.99 | 1,826 92% | 55k | $383k (exactly $382,912) | Two Tribes |
| | 10 Second Ninja X | older | $9.99 | 306 84% | 9.2k | $92k (exactly $91,708) | Four Circle Interactive |
| | Octahedron: Transfixed Edition | older | $12.99 | 115 93% | 3.5k | $45k (exactly $44,816) | Demimonde |
| | Offspring Fling! | older | $7.99 | 139 89% | 4.2k | $33k (exactly $33,318) | Kyle Pulver |
 | Glyph☀️ | older | $9.99 | 106 92% | 3.2k | $32k (exactly $31,768) | Bolverk Games |
 | Ball Torture | older | $9.99 | 90 82% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,973) | SufferSoft |
 | Binaries | older | $11.99 | 56 87% | 1.7k | $20k (exactly $20,143) | Ant Workshop Ltd |
 | Lanternium | older | $7.99 | 70 88% | 2.1k | $17k (exactly $16,779) | Blazing Planet Studio |
 | ArcSine | older | $24.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $16k (exactly $15,744) | Prop Logic |
 | Caromble! | $12.99 | 34 73% | 1.0k | $13k (exactly $13,250) | Crimson Owl Studios | |
 | Gravity Storm: First Mission | $9.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Jampley Games | |
 | Raccoon Roller | $14.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $7.2k (exactly $7,195) | Ribcat Games | |
 | Ticking Together | $4.99 | 37 97% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Furkan Baytak, Furkan Özkaya | |
 | Three Bulky Bears | $9.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Storytime Games | |
 | The Confinement | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Mr. Dev Studio | |
 | Wake Up and Jump! | $4.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | RG Games | |
 | SquareMan-Boy | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Team Jape | |
 | Easy | $1.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $657 (exactly $657) | Xtreme Games | |
 | Excavator Ball | $2.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Carrapacks Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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