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Should I ship a Time Manipulation Shoot 'Em Up?
Time Manipulation + Shoot 'Em Up
Only 11 developers shipped a Time Manipulation Shoot 'Em Up 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, Vendetta Forever, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×10.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $880 against a market of $480. 20 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $882 (exactly $882) |
| Top 25% | $4.6k (exactly $4,585) |
| Top 5% | $20k (exactly $20,390) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 80% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Shoot 'Em Up
- 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, Shoot 'Em Up
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 90% positive over 116 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×10.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Super Time Force Ultra 2014 · $304k 
Sine Mora EX 2017 · $139k 
Soundodger 2 2023 · $111k 
Blast-off 2018 · $34k 
Vendetta Forever 2025 · $20k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Super Time Force Ultra | older | $14.99 | 677 90% | 20k | $304k (exactly $304,447) | Capybara Games |
| | Sine Mora EX | older | $9.99 | 463 66% | 14k | $139k (exactly $138,761) | Digital Reality, Grasshopper Manufactur… (Digital Reality, Grasshopper Manufacture, Gyroscope Games) |
| | Soundodger 2 | older | $19.99 | 185 95% | 5.6k | $111k (exactly $110,944) | Studio Bean |
| | Blast-off | older | $2.99 | 379 86% | 11k | $34k (exactly $33,996) | Quad-Games |
| | Vendetta Forever | $19.99 | 34 76% | 1.0k | $20k (exactly $20,390) | Meatspace Interactive | |
 | Time Rift | older | $9.99 | 66 95% | 2.0k | $20k (exactly $19,780) | Lightshards, Abiding Bridge |
 | WAVECADE | older | $9.99 | 27 92% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Andrew Spalato, Lewis Spalato |
 | Duck Paradox | $9.99 | 19 100% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | Magic Games | |
 | Razerwire:Nanowars | older | $1.99 | 83 87% | 2.5k | $5.0k (exactly $4,955) | Hammer & Ravens |
 | Hologram | older | $19.99 | 8 25% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | Enlighteneer |
 | AIRANBLADE | $8.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $4.6k (exactly $4,585) | ANIMABOX | |
 | A Duel Hand Disaster: Trackher | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Ask An Enemy Studios | |
 | Captain Puff MacFly | $2.99 | 23 95% | 690 | $2.1k (exactly $2,063) | MVCAO Studios | |
 | Cosmic Waves | $9.80 | 3 66% | 90 | $882 (exactly $882) | Squirrel Knight | |
 | Miryam: The Polluted Land | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | 6.5F Studio | |
 | Glusiverse | · EA | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Trusiga |
 | Mayday | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | GTD | |
 | Splitfire | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | @thr3mix |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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