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Should I ship a 4 Player Local Cooking game?
4 Player Local + Cooking
Only 14 developers shipped a 4 Player Local Cooking game 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, Vacation Cafe Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×3.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.1k, ×6.6 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $900; 1 in 20 cleared $410k, ×884 the market median. Revenue is up 105% on the market; 25 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $897 (exactly $897) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) |
| Top 25% | $24k (exactly $23,653) |
| Top 5% | $420k (exactly $419,790) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 57 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 105% on the market, supply 15% 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.
- 4 Player Local
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Cooking
- 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
- 4 Player Local, Cooking
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,150 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 9 in 10 of the 16 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
4 Player Local with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Open WorldFair
- + Multiple EndingsFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + CatsFair
- + RhythmFair
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + Football (Soccer)Poor odds
- + Beat 'em upPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + TriviaPoor odds
- + MinigamesPoor odds
Comparable games
Overcooked! 2 2018 · $46M 
PlateUp! 2022 · $11M 
Overcooked 2016 · $6.9M 
Overcooked! All You Can Eat 2021 · $6.9M 
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2013 · $1.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Overcooked! 2 | older | $24.99 | 61,956 90% | 1.9M | $46M (exactly $46,448,413) | Ghost Town Games Ltd., Team17 |
| | PlateUp! | older | $19.99 | 18,500 94% | 555k | $11M (exactly $11,094,450) | It's happening |
| | 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 |
| | Cook, Serve, Delicious! | older | $12.99 | 3,713 95% | 111k | $1.4M (exactly $1,446,956) | Vertigo Gaming Inc. |
 | Vacation Cafe Simulator | $19.99 | 700 88% | 21k | $420k (exactly $419,790) | Alice Games | |
 | Diner Bros | older | $9.99 | 817 90% | 25k | $245k (exactly $244,855) | JAYFLGAMES |
 | Bone's Cafe | older | $14.99 | 340 96% | 10k | $153k (exactly $152,898) | Acute Owl Studio |
 | Witchtastic | older | $17.99 | 238 92% | 7.1k | $128k (exactly $128,449) | Red Fur Games |
 | Diner Bros 2 | $14.99 | 147 87% | 4.4k | $66k (exactly $66,106) | JAYFLGAMES | |
 | Let's Cook Together 2 | $23.99 | 37 75% | 1.1k | $27k (exactly $26,629) | Yellow Dot | |
 | Party Club | $4.99 | 158 72% | 4.7k | $24k (exactly $23,653) | Lucid11 Interactive | |
 | The Artifactory | $19.99 | 24 75% | 720 | $14k (exactly $14,393) | Berries Studios | |
 | Summer Delicious Simulator | $3.99 | 35 71% | 1.1k | $4.2k (exactly $4,190) | BitRaiders Games | |
 | Coffee, Plis | $7.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Divertgames | |
 | PizzaPanic | $8.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Catnip Lab | |
 | Just Eat Sushi! | $3.00 | 16 93% | 480 | $1.4k (exactly $1,440) | Aurora Colored Bird | |
 | Premier Servi | $2.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | Florent Baris, Gaspard Thirion, Mickaël… (Florent Baris, Gaspard Thirion, Mickaël Scherlen) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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