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Specimen · observed

Should I ship a Robot Quick-Time Events game?

Quick-Time Events + Robots

Only 8 developers shipped a Robot 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, Bot Loop, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.

Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.

Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $90 against a market of $630. 12 games are announced.

Deciding numbers: median 0.1 times the market baseline, revenue down 80% on the market, 12 announced, ×3.0 per developer who shipped in the last year.
Nobody has said they are building this yet.
Quick-Time Events + Robots
Fig. 1 · this niche among 16,100
Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr n = 8

not enough cohorts to draw

Outcomes for Quick-Time Events + Robots: Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr, n = 8
Bottom 30% $0 (exactly $0)
Median $90 (exactly $90)
Top 25% $719 (exactly $719)
Top 5% $3.0k (exactly $2,967)
Developers, 2 yr 8
Released games 27
Announced 12
Effort 5 / 10
AI-buildability Medium
Typical price $2.99

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 80% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.

Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.

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Plate 2 · systems and tooling

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
Robots
effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band

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Plate 3 · the cost side

What it takes

Effort
5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
Systems
Quick-Time Events
Price point
$2.99 typical
Plate 4 · demand

Why players buy here

Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.

The top 25% priced at $59.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.

The top 10 games average 86% positive over 175,475 reviews.

Plate 5 · the loss side

What kills games here

Developer outcomes in the last 2 years by share: 3 in 10 under $50, median $90, 1 in 4 over $710, 1 in 20 over $2.9k.

3 in 10 developers made under $50. 12 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.

Plate 6 · same mechanic, other settings

Adjacent niches

Quick-Time Events with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.

  1. + Dating SimFair17 devs · median $15k · 16 announced
  2. + Shoot 'Em UpFair8 devs · median $1.2k · 12 announced
  3. + Life SimFair28 devs · median $958 · 33 announced
  4. + SimulationFair116 devs · median $748 · 133 announced
  5. + CollectathonFair15 devs · median $720 · 18 announced
  6. + Resource ManagementFair46 devs · median $719 · 55 announced
  7. + FlightFair9 devs · median $657 · 9 announced
  8. + AliensFair12 devs · median $628 · 14 announced
  9. + SpaceFair16 devs · median $597 · 24 announced
  10. + Bullet TimeLong shot10 devs · median $390 · 15 announced
  11. + DemonsLong shot17 devs · median $300 · 22 announced
  12. + Bullet HellLong shot27 devs · median $239 · 25 announced

All 110 pairs on the Quick-Time Events page

Plate 7 · comparable specimens, by est. revenue

Comparable games

Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015 · $284M Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare 2016 · $31M INPUT6 2022 · $19k Meet Your Oshi 2024 · $12k Tower of Doom 2021 · $4.0k
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)
Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare older $59.99 17,489 65% 525k $31M (exactly $31,474,953) Infinity Ward
INPUT6 older $3.99 160 96% 4.8k $19k (exactly $19,152) GOOSTRONAUT GAMES
Meet Your Oshi older $3.99 97 89% 2.9k $12k (exactly $11,611) VchiBan
Tower of Doom older $14.99 9 88% 270 $4.0k (exactly $4,047) Finn Lichtenberg
Bot Loop $8.99 11 81% 330 $3.0k (exactly $2,967) ciego
Customer Disservice $7.99 3 100% 90 $719 (exactly $719) Sudden Frog
Neonova older $7.99 3 100% 90 $719 (exactly $719) Henri Malahieude
独特的友谊 - Special Friendship $2.99 6 66% 180 $538 (exactly $538) U0U0X幽灵
Mech Arena older $4.99 3 66% 90 $449 (exactly $449) Scarlet Whale
ParkTour $2.99 1 100% 30 $90 (exactly $90) Federico Garcia
Voltgrit: Combat Zone $2.55 1 0% 30 $76 (exactly $76) Avnic25
Jumbot $2.99 0 0% 0 $0 (exactly $0) Luyao Zhan
FEED TO BOOM $5.99 0 0% 0 $0 (exactly $0) 吃到爆补给站
Bots&Beats $1.89 0 0% 0 $0 (exactly $0) Team Bots&Beats

Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.