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Should I ship a Time-Travel Strategy game?
Strategy + Time Travel
Of 36 developers who shipped a Time-Travel Strategy game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 68 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $340k, ×546 the market median. Revenue is up 80% on the market; 68 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) |
| Top 5% | $343k (exactly $343,028) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 36 |
| Released games | 104 |
| Announced | 68 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 up 80% on the market, supply 10% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Strategy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Time Travel
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Strategy; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Action, Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $11.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Pixel Graphics, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $11.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 4,686 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 21 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 68 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Strategy with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + WuxiaFair
- + FarmingFair
- + Martial ArtsFair
- + SubmarineFair
- + NavalFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Shop KeeperFair
- + HackingFair
Comparable games
Depersonalization 2024 · $3.6M 
Braid 2009 · $3.1M 
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel 2020 · $2.9M 
Multiverse Loot Hunter 2025 · $930k 
Original War 2014 · $543k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Depersonalization | older | $19.99 | 6,041 92% | 181k | $3.6M (exactly $3,622,788) | MeowNature |
| | Braid | older | $14.99 | 6,941 93% | 208k | $3.1M (exactly $3,121,368) | Number None |
| | 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel | older | $11.99 | 8,097 96% | 243k | $2.9M (exactly $2,912,491) | Conor Petersen, Thunkspace, LLC |
| | Multiverse Loot Hunter | $11.99 | 2,585 80% | 78k | $930k (exactly $929,824) | 游戏养家工作室 | |
| | Original War | older | $9.99 | 1,812 94% | 54k | $543k (exactly $543,056) | Altar Games |
 | Loop Queen-Escape Dungeon 3 | older | $19.99 | 611 84% | 18k | $366k (exactly $366,417) | Hide Games |
 | Million Depth | $16.99 | 673 93% | 20k | $343k (exactly $343,028) | Cyber Space Biotope | |
 | Time Warpers | older | $19.99 | 493 82% | 15k | $296k (exactly $295,652) | Proton Studio Inc |
 | Villages & Dungeons | $6.99 | 1,036 91% | 31k | $217k (exactly $217,249) | CaCaFrog Studio | |
 | Time Break Chronicles | · EA older | $14.99 | 298 88% | 8.9k | $134k (exactly $134,011) | Warrior General Games, LLC |
 | Loophole | $9.99 | 154 99% | 4.6k | $46k (exactly $46,154) | Levi Pinkert | |
 | 刻印战记2：七圣英雄 | $9.99 | 63 73% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $18,881) | Lycian Studio | |
 | Tale of Immortal Ring | $4.99 | 51 66% | 1.5k | $7.6k (exactly $7,635) | Solo Gaming | |
 | Clockfall | · EA | $9.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Rever Games GmbH |
 | Miracle Heroes: Temporal Bounty Hunter | $1.99 | 79 92% | 2.4k | $4.7k (exactly $4,716) | Cat Play Studio | |
 | Code Tycoon | $9.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Mennen Games | |
 | Iconia Defenders | $11.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | Anawim Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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