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Should I ship a Science Time Manipulation game?
Time Manipulation + Science
Only 11 developers shipped a Science Time Manipulation 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, Typhon: Bot vs Bot, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300, ×0.6 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 19 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper, while revenue is down 100% on the market.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) |
| Top 5% | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Time Manipulation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Science
- 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
- Time Manipulation
- Price point
- $12.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 90% positive over 62 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Time Manipulation with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + CapitalismFair
- + ModernFair
- + PsychologicalFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
- + Choose Your Own AdventurePoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + DetectivePoor odds
- + NoirPoor odds
Comparable games
Gravity Field 2023 · $700k 
Quantum Conundrum 2012 · $474k 
Time Lock VR 1 2017 · $259k 
Time Machine VR 2016 · $103k 
The God Unit 2021 · $23k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Gravity Field | older | $29.99 | 778 79% | 23k | $700k (exactly $699,967) | Kazakov Studios |
| | Quantum Conundrum | older | $8.99 | 1,758 84% | 53k | $474k (exactly $474,133) | Airtight Games |
| | Time Lock VR 1 | older | $12.99 | 665 78% | 20k | $259k (exactly $259,150) | WR-VRG |
| | Time Machine VR | older | $29.99 | 115 64% | 3.5k | $103k (exactly $103,466) | Minority Media Inc. |
| | The God Unit | older | $9.99 | 78 96% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,377) | Cat Floor Studio |
 | THE BYTE | older | $24.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $11k (exactly $11,246) | AVAKE |
 | Typhon: Bot vs Bot | · EA | $19.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) | Brightshade Games |
 | T. B. P. | older | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Forgotten 23 | $12.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $5.5k (exactly $5,456) | KovalGames | |
 | GOST of Time | $4.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) | IzHard | |
 | Macht: Cosmic Engine | · EA | $24.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $3.7k (exactly $3,748) | Kestro Games |
 | Chrono Weaver | $24.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $750 (exactly $750) | Ivory Crow Games LLC | |
 | Shattered Time | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Studio Sakura | |
 | MERIDIAN | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Alexander Kosenko | |
 | Soft(A)ware | $18.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | B0TLANNER Games | |
 | Signs and Seasons Explorer | $10.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Great Wall Studio | |
 | Skyos | · EA | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SkyOS Labs |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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