Time Manipulation games on Steam

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The niche at a glance

Time Manipulation on Steam: 1,160 released games, 358 in the last 12 months, 542 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 51% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Time Manipulation is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .

What releases end up with

lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included464 releases
p100
p251
median9
p7535
p90157
51% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $5.99 · 11% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
30med 40 · 30% unseen
2020
82med 26 · 32% unseen
2021
105med 12 · 41% unseen
2022
108med 17 · 34% unseen
2023
121med 16 · 37% unseen
2024
150med 12 · 45% unseen
2025
165med 13 · 42% unseen
2026
213med 2 · 72% unseen · 83 too fresh

Time Manipulation × setting: what the pairings end up with

every setting tag shipped with Time Manipulation at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Time Manipulation ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Dystopian5334under 2013.3%
cliché ×2.4492 d
Nobody Wants to Die
Ascend to ZERO
Nobody Wants to Die · Ascend to ZERO
Transhumanism518under 2013.3%
cliché ×2.71390 d
Nobody Wants to Die
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
Nobody Wants to Die · Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
Noir15741under 2012.4%
cliché ×2.45196 d
Nobody Wants to Die
The Drifter
The Posthumous Investigation
Nobody Wants to Die · The Drifter · The Posthumous Investigation
Cyberpunk206815.0% 5%–36%10.8%
cliché ×2.6692 d
Nobody Wants to Die
Ascend to ZERO
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
Nobody Wants to Die · Ascend to ZERO · Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
Time Travel77271110.4% 5%–19%9.6%
cliché ×31.3992 d
Braid, Anniversary Edition
Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
Ascend to ZERO
Braid, Anniversary Edition · Chrono Gear: Warden of Time · Ascend to ZERO
Modern154145under 209.5%
ordinary ×1.38453 d
Revolution Idle
The Drifter
Revolution Idle · The Drifter
Detective26112411.5% 4%–29%9.4%
cliché ×1.95196 d
Nobody Wants to Die
Dinocop
The Posthumous Investigation
Nobody Wants to Die · Dinocop · The Posthumous Investigation
Crime529under 209.3%
ordinary ×0.97196 d
The Posthumous Investigation
The Posthumous Investigation
Magic289810.7% 4%–27%9.0%
ordinary ×1.11348 d
DevilConnection
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II
Magic Research 2
DevilConnection · The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II · Magic Research 2
Supernatural1768under 209.0%
ordinary ×1.26196 d
The Drifter
The Posthumous Investigation
The Drifter · The Posthumous Investigation
Dinosaurs647under 209.0%
cliché ×1.92341 d
Dinocop
Dinocop
LGBTQ+6139under 209.0%
ordinary ×0.49657 d
New Day
New Day
Mechs6313under 209.0%
cliché ×1.58606 d
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II
Thriller18918under 208.8%
ordinary ×1.07453 d
Nobody Wants to Die
The Drifter
Nobody Wants to Die · The Drifter
Military7335under 208.6%
ordinary ×0.97923 d
No Plan B
No Plan B
15 pairings cleared 20 releases; 86 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

About these numbers

“Adjusted” is the share pulled towards the catalogue with the weight of twenty releases: the top of any ranked list is optimistic (out of a hundred pairings one will show 35 % on 23 releases by luck alone), and the adjustment is what stops a small lucky group from leading. The band next to the raw share is the 95 % interval. This list is the same for everyone today; the second opinion is the description-based one on Pitch comps.