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Should I ship a Time Manipulation Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Time Manipulation
Only 7 developers shipped a Time Manipulation Survival Horror 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, ANARIA: Reborn, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120, ×0.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $60; 1 in 20 cleared $1.0k, ×1.7 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $628 (exactly $628) |
| Top 5% | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Time Manipulation
- 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 Horror, Time Manipulation
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 8,705 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Singularity™ 2010 · $4.9M 
Homebody 2023 · $379k 
Metel - Horror Escape 2020 · EA · $207k 
HORROR TALES: The Beggar 2024 · $46k 
Los Penguinos 2024 · $8.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Singularity™ | older | $29.99 | 5,487 93% | 165k | $4.9M (exactly $4,936,654) | Raven Software |
| | Homebody | older | $19.99 | 632 93% | 19k | $379k (exactly $379,010) | Game Grumps |
| | Metel - Horror Escape | · EA older | $2.99 | 2,304 93% | 69k | $207k (exactly $206,669) | Linked Squad |
| | HORROR TALES: The Beggar | older | $11.99 | 127 84% | 3.8k | $46k (exactly $45,682) | CarlosGameDev |
| | Los Penguinos | older | $4.99 | 57 80% | 1.7k | $8.5k (exactly $8,533) | Hero, ShLeks |
 | Chess Pills | older | $3.99 | 43 90% | 1.3k | $5.1k (exactly $5,147) | Deep Green Games |
 | The Frozen Garden | older | $4.99 | 25 76% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Distorted Production |
 | Bear Haven Nights 2 | older | $7.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | SunRay Games |
 | Rosemary's Fate Life Worth Living | older | $9.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | Game The Same, The Midworld |
 | Clostrophobia: Vol 1 | older | $6.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | CosmicPulsarStudio |
 | ANARIA: Reborn | $6.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | VOIDEMBER | |
 | Anaria | $2.99 | 11 54% | 330 | $987 (exactly $987) | VOIDEMBER | |
 | Backrooms: The Yellow Dream | $2.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Crow Games | |
 | Cursed Hospital | $5.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | KaashFusionStudio | |
 | Office Chug | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | ByteLyft | |
 | Transport Route Anomaly: Infected Node | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Artegious Games | |
 | Medieval Halloween VR | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Eternal Drift Studio LLC |
 | Drazy and the Puppets JB | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Aquiles Erre Rodrigues Neto |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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