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Should I ship a Time-Travel Stealth game?
Stealth + Time Travel
Only 6 developers shipped a Time-Travel 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, BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×14 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.0k against a market of $630. 27 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $12,558) |
| Top 5% | $115k (exactly $115,162) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 27 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, 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
- Time Travel
- 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
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 29,935 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 27 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×14 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Stealth with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + JRPGFair
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + WargamePoor odds
- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + Gun CustomizationPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + WarPoor odds
Comparable games
Quantum Break 2016 · $28M 
The Sexy Brutale 2017 · $1.7M 
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™ 2008 · $804k 
Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality 2021 · $206k 
BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH 2025 · $115k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Quantum Break | older | $39.99 | 23,141 86% | 694k | $28M (exactly $27,762,258) | Remedy Entertainment |
| | The Sexy Brutale | older | $19.99 | 2,895 91% | 87k | $1.7M (exactly $1,736,131) | Cavalier Game Studios, Tequila Works |
| | Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™ | older | $9.99 | 2,683 80% | 80k | $804k (exactly $804,095) | Ubisoft Montreal |
| | Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality | older | $24.99 | 275 59% | 8.3k | $206k (exactly $206,168) | Maze Theory Ltd, Just Add Water (Develo… (Maze Theory Ltd, Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd.) |
| | BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH | $8.99 | 427 81% | 13k | $115k (exactly $115,162) | Serafini Productions | |
 | Chupa Chupa VR | older | $10.99 | 121 90% | 3.6k | $40k (exactly $39,894) | kan.kikuchi |
 | TimeShifters | older | $4.99 | 167 93% | 5.0k | $25k (exactly $25,000) | FossettGaming |
 | LiBER | older | $8.99 | 78 80% | 2.3k | $21k (exactly $21,037) | OLKON GAMES |
 | Hank: Drowning On Dry Land | $2.99 | 140 95% | 4.2k | $13k (exactly $12,558) | My Next Games | |
 | Hua Mulan: A Chinese Learning Adventure | · EA older | $19.99 | 8 25% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | ODEUM |
 | ANARIA: Reborn | $6.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | VOIDEMBER | |
 | Kozyrev Horrors | $4.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Catsprout | |
 | Chronos Shift | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Pigeon Entertainment | |
 | Tempus Umbra | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jabsz Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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