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Should I ship a Time Manipulation Tower Defense?
Time Manipulation + Tower Defense
Only 9 developers shipped a Time Manipulation Tower Defense 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, Cube Chaos, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $750, ×1.6 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $220k, ×470 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 16 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) |
| Top 5% | $223k (exactly $223,374) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 down 50% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Time Manipulation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Tower Defense
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Time Manipulation, Tower Defense
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $11.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,680 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 16 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Time Manipulation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + CapitalismFair
- + ModernFair
- + PsychologicalFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
- + Choose Your Own AdventurePoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + DetectivePoor odds
- + NoirPoor odds
Comparable games
Cube Chaos 2025 · $223k 
Time Rifters 2014 · $118k 
Timemelters 2024 · $91k 
Cube Land Arena 2019 · $42k 
Natti 2023 · EA · $26k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cube Chaos | $11.99 | 621 95% | 19k | $223k (exactly $223,374) | Wunarg | |
| | Time Rifters | older | $9.99 | 395 87% | 12k | $118k (exactly $118,382) | Proton Studio Inc |
| | Timemelters | older | $19.99 | 152 92% | 4.6k | $91k (exactly $91,154) | Autoexec Games |
| | Cube Land Arena | older | $4.99 | 279 66% | 8.4k | $42k (exactly $41,766) | Jaison Robson Gusava, SC Jogos |
| | Natti | · EA older | $7.99 | 109 58% | 3.3k | $26k (exactly $26,127) | 4DAYS LAB Co., Ltd. |
 | Temporal Titans | · EA | $9.99 | 44 95% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Lost Tower Games |
 | Omnibullet | older | $11.99 | 36 100% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,949) | Arbitrary Combination |
 | Terminal squad: Sentinel | older | $3.99 | 29 55% | 870 | $3.5k (exactly $3,471) | WinDARities, Driod Riot |
 | Rip Them Off | older | $8.99 | 11 36% | 330 | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) | Lozange Lab |
 | Stop the Blight | $12.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) | Bouncy Washer | |
 | Age of Damnation | $6.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $1.3k (exactly $1,258) | WukaStudio | |
 | Miryam: The Polluted Land | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | 6.5F Studio | |
 | Israel vs. Iran: IRON DOME | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Michael Blair | |
 | Snow Defense | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Saritasa VR Production | |
 | Wild Roots : Chef Vs Critters | · EA | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Creekside Interactive |
 | Rocket Commander VR | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Dev Dept. |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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