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Should I ship a Co-op Campaign 4 Player Local game?
Co-op Campaign + 4 Player Local
Of 40 developers who shipped a Co-op Campaign 4 Player Local 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.. 108 more are announced, ×4.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×0.6 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240. 108 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper, while revenue is down 85% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $12,081) |
| Top 5% | $341k (exactly $340,630) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 40 |
| Released games | 168 |
| Announced | 108 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 down 85% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Co-op Campaign
- effort 8 / 10 · low · shared campaign state over the network
- 4 Player Local
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Co-op Campaign, 4 Player Local; 9 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Local Co-Op, Co-op, Local Multiplayer
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Colorful, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 12,357 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. All of the 17 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 108 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 2025 · $24M 
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince 2019 · $11M 
Barony 2015 · $7.6M 
Overcooked 2016 · $6.9M 
Overcooked! All You Can Eat 2021 · $6.9M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds | $69.99 | 11,479 93% | 344k | $24M (exactly $24,102,456) | Sonic Team | |
| | Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince | older | $29.99 | 11,712 88% | 351k | $11M (exactly $10,537,286) | Frozenbyte |
| | Barony | older | $19.99 | 12,714 90% | 381k | $7.6M (exactly $7,624,586) | Turning Wheel LLC |
| | Overcooked | older | $16.99 | 13,528 89% | 406k | $6.9M (exactly $6,895,222) | Ghost Town Games Ltd. |
| | Overcooked! All You Can Eat | older | $39.99 | 5,744 73% | 172k | $6.9M (exactly $6,891,077) | Team17 Digital, Ghost Town Games |
 | HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed | older | $24.99 | 3,798 90% | 114k | $2.8M (exactly $2,847,361) | Digital Cybercherries |
 | Nine Parchments | older | $19.99 | 4,123 77% | 124k | $2.5M (exactly $2,472,563) | Frozenbyte |
 | Wargroove | older | $19.99 | 4,015 83% | 120k | $2.4M (exactly $2,407,796) | Chucklefish |
 | Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime | older | $14.99 | 3,368 93% | 101k | $1.5M (exactly $1,514,590) | Asteroid Base |
 | Dungeons of Sundaria | older | $9.99 | 3,061 74% | 92k | $917k (exactly $917,382) | Industry Games |
 | DuneCrawl | $19.99 | 568 74% | 17k | $341k (exactly $340,630) | Alientrap | |
 | Tipston Salvage | $16.99 | 80 97% | 2.4k | $41k (exactly $40,776) | Pontus Karlsson | |
 | Let's Cook Together 2 | $23.99 | 37 75% | 1.1k | $27k (exactly $26,629) | Yellow Dot | |
 | Keep the Heroes Out | $19.99 | 35 60% | 1.1k | $21k (exactly $20,990) | Brueh Games, YarnCat Games | |
 | We Could Be Heroes | $14.99 | 42 85% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $18,887) | CebCode Games | |
 | Heroes of Mount Dragon | $19.99 | 27 66% | 810 | $16k (exactly $16,192) | RuniQ | |
 | Beat The Champions | $19.99 | 26 73% | 780 | $16k (exactly $15,592) | Purple Tree S R L, Whiteboard Games | |
 | CTHULOOT | $14.99 | 32 81% | 960 | $14k (exactly $14,390) | Pixelnest Studio, Headbang Club | |
 | Buccaneers Shipshape | $12.99 | 31 87% | 930 | $12k (exactly $12,081) | Merso Entertainment |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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