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Should I ship a Quick-Time Events Stealth game?
Stealth + Quick-Time Events
Only 18 developers shipped a Quick-Time Events Stealth 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, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 43 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $2.0M, ×3339 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 43 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 25% | $3.8k (exactly $3,778) |
| Top 5% | $2.1M (exactly $2,097,201) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 43 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 100% more 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.
- Stealth
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Quick-Time Events
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Stealth, Quick-Time Events; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Action, Choices Matter
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $49.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, Atmospheric, Cinematic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $49.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 5,277 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 43 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Tomb Raider Game of the Year 2013 · $104M 
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue 2015 · $13M 
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead 2024 · $2.1M 
Directive 8020 2026 · $2.0M 
Card Shark 2022 · $1.8M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tomb Raider Game of the Year | older | $19.99 | 173,270 95% | 5.2M | $104M (exactly $103,910,019) | Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Feral… (Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Feral Interactive (Mac), Nixxes) |
| | Assassin’s Creed® Rogue | older | $19.99 | 21,310 86% | 639k | $13M (exactly $12,779,607) | Ubisoft Sofia, Ubisoft Kiev |
| | A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead | $29.99 | 2,331 74% | 70k | $2.1M (exactly $2,097,201) | Stormind Games | |
| | Directive 8020 | $49.99 | 1,337 63% | 40k | $2.0M (exactly $2,005,099) | Supermassive Games | |
| | Card Shark | older | $19.99 | 2,965 90% | 89k | $1.8M (exactly $1,778,110) | Nerial |
 | The Inn-Sanity | $7.99 | 1,561 96% | 47k | $374k (exactly $374,172) | Steppe Hare Studio | |
 | Eyes: The Horror Game | older | $4.99 | 923 90% | 28k | $138k (exactly $138,173) | Fearless Games |
 | Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon (2003) | older | $5.99 | 750 55% | 23k | $135k (exactly $134,775) | Revolution Software Ltd |
 | Didnapper 2 | older | $19.99 | 184 96% | 5.5k | $110k (exactly $110,345) | DID Games |
 | Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open | older | $16.99 | 62 93% | 1.9k | $32k (exactly $31,601) | Cellar Vault Games |
 | Daughter of The Void | · EA | $9.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Shaybabe |
 | Breakfall: Nuclear Winter | · EA | $17.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $3.8k (exactly $3,778) | Dominik Geuer |
 | UNPLUG - The Game | · EA | $10.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) | GoldLime Studios |
 | Hush Hush High | $5.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Bablabo Games, Hritik Dutta, Anushka Ka… (Bablabo Games, Hritik Dutta, Anushka Karmakar, Nimish Rohankar) | |
 | Nowhere To Go | $4.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Trinity Studios | |
 | The Echoes of Me | · EA | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Stefan Atanasoski |
 | Heist | $15.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | anl studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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