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Should I ship a Time-Travel Survival game?
Survival + Time Travel
Only 12 developers shipped a Time-Travel Survival 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, Dino Crisis, 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, ×20 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.8k against a market of $630. 20 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) |
| Top 25% | $118k (exactly $117,741) |
| Top 5% | $284k (exactly $283,816) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 90% 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.
- Survival
- 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
- Survival
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 2,338 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×20 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Word GameFair
- + CatsFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + DogsFair
- + Martial ArtsLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
Comparable games
No Time 2019 · EA · $825k 
River Town Factory 2024 · $574k 
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival 2023 · $484k 
Dino Crisis 2026 · $284k 
Supplice 2023 · EA · $240k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | No Time | · EA older | $12.99 | 2,117 97% | 64k | $825k (exactly $824,995) | Lost in Days Studio |
| | River Town Factory | older | $14.99 | 1,277 88% | 38k | $574k (exactly $574,267) | iFAction Studio |
| | Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival | older | $19.99 | 807 69% | 24k | $484k (exactly $483,958) | Tbjbu2 |
| | Dino Crisis | $9.99 | 947 80% | 28k | $284k (exactly $283,816) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd., GOG.com | |
| | Supplice | · EA older | $14.99 | 533 87% | 16k | $240k (exactly $239,690) | Mekworx |
 | Dino Crisis 2 | $9.99 | 709 87% | 21k | $212k (exactly $212,487) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd., GOG.com | |
 | Pizza Bandit | · EA | $24.99 | 185 82% | 5.6k | $139k (exactly $138,694) | JOFSOFT |
 | Space Accident VR | $16.99 | 231 82% | 6.9k | $118k (exactly $117,741) | VR-WRG | |
 | Dofamine VR | $9.99 | 173 82% | 5.2k | $52k (exactly $51,848) | VR-WRG | |
 | Complex Loop | older | $9.99 | 56 91% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $16,783) | あみそ組, Bird`sEye |
 | Temporal Purge: Z | $4.99 | 56 85% | 1.7k | $8.4k (exactly $8,383) | Exec Games | |
 | Iconia Defenders | $11.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | Anawim Studios | |
 | Backrooms: New Gate | $6.99 | 18 72% | 540 | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) | Torna Games | |
 | Cave Of Horrors | $4.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Maiku_Dev | |
 | Super Sakura Boom Boom Multiverse Madness Ultra Turbo Remix HD | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Rubilaxe |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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