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Should I ship a Tabletop Time Management game?
Time Management + Tabletop
Of 41 developers who shipped a Tabletop Time Management 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.. 37 more are announced, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $810, ×1.7 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $310k, ×657 the market median. Revenue is up 100% on the market; 37 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $807 (exactly $807) |
| Top 25% | $6.4k (exactly $6,437) |
| Top 5% | $312k (exactly $312,092) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 41 |
| Released games | 96 |
| Announced | 37 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 up 100% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Time Management
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Tabletop
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Time Management, Tabletop; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Management, Strategy
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, 2D, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 27,676 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 8 in 10 of the 27 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 37 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Time Management with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Inventory ManagementFair
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- + LootFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
- + AutomationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
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Comparable games
Sultan's Game 2025 · $19M 
BOOK OF HOURS 2023 · $3.1M 
No Time to Relax 2019 · $1.0M 
Timeflow – Life Sim 2019 · EA · $620k 
Walk of Life 2026 · $533k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sultan's Game | $24.99 | 25,061 93% | 752k | $19M (exactly $18,788,232) | Double Cross | |
| | BOOK OF HOURS | older | $24.99 | 4,129 89% | 124k | $3.1M (exactly $3,095,511) | Weather Factory |
| | No Time to Relax | older | $13.99 | 2,486 92% | 75k | $1.0M (exactly $1,043,374) | Porcelain Fortress |
| | Timeflow – Life Sim | · EA older | $14.99 | 1,379 91% | 41k | $620k (exactly $620,136) | Digital Geckos |
| | Walk of Life | $19.99 | 888 94% | 27k | $533k (exactly $532,534) | Porcelain Fortress | |
 | Card Cultivation | $14.99 | 694 70% | 21k | $312k (exactly $312,092) | DarkIndex | |
 | Master of Chess | $19.99 | 290 83% | 8.7k | $174k (exactly $173,913) | BRANE | |
 | Sizzle & Stack | $9.99 | 264 72% | 7.9k | $79k (exactly $79,121) | Arvis Games | |
 | Diablo The Abyss | older | $7.99 | 207 83% | 6.2k | $50k (exactly $49,618) | Friday Night |
 | The Deadly Path | $12.99 | 84 39% | 2.5k | $33k (exactly $32,735) | Owlskip Enterprises | |
 | Burger Bots Inc. | $7.99 | 109 91% | 3.3k | $26k (exactly $26,127) | Normogames | |
 | Casino Simulator 2024 | $5.99 | 119 69% | 3.6k | $21k (exactly $21,384) | METAGAR | |
 | Mighty Marbles | $11.99 | 24 91% | 720 | $8.6k (exactly $8,633) | James Oliver | |
 | My Wife | $1.99 | 143 94% | 4.3k | $8.5k (exactly $8,537) | Neko Game |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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