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Should I ship a Cyberpunk 4 Player Local game?
4 Player Local + Cyberpunk
Only 7 developers shipped a Cyberpunk 4 Player Local 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, Forehead Chip, 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, ×6.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $900 against a market of $630. 25 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $3.6k (exactly $3,597) |
| Top 5% | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Cyberpunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 4 Player Local
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 6,870 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
4 Player Local with a different setting or mood, 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
Distance 2018 · $4.4M 
It's Quiz Time 2017 · $169k 
Hyper Jam 2019 · $168k 
Astro Duel 2 2024 · $35k 
Super Impossible Road 2016 · $28k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Distance | older | $24.99 | 5,832 93% | 175k | $4.4M (exactly $4,372,250) | Refract |
| | It's Quiz Time | older | $24.99 | 225 74% | 6.8k | $169k (exactly $168,682) | Snap Finger Click |
| | Hyper Jam | older | $12.99 | 431 93% | 13k | $168k (exactly $167,961) | Bit Dragon |
| | Astro Duel 2 | older | $19.99 | 59 100% | 1.8k | $35k (exactly $35,382) | Rusty Moyher |
| | Super Impossible Road | older | $9.99 | 94 87% | 2.8k | $28k (exactly $28,172) | Wonderful Lasers |
 | HordeCore | older | $5.99 | 118 63% | 3.5k | $21k (exactly $21,205) | Digitality Games |
 | AT SUNDOWN: Shots in the Dark | older | $9.99 | 27 55% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Mildbeast |
 | Cyber Protocol | older | $9.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | RedDeer.Games |
 | Circuit Breakers | older | $6.99 | 31 74% | 930 | $6.5k (exactly $6,501) | Triverske |
 | Dark Data | older | $6.99 | 26 84% | 780 | $5.5k (exactly $5,452) | Enlightened Realm, Pixelfoot Games |
 | Forehead Chip | $9.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Naturally Intelligent | |
 | Zone 6 | $11.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.6k (exactly $3,597) | Ullbors | |
 | Stealth Syndicate | $3.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | Vincent Lopes-Vicente | |
 | TANK ZERO | $5.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | Emergency Exit | |
 | Sunset Arena | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Unprecedented Studios | |
 | Sunset Racing | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Unprecedented Studios | |
 | Hollow Ground | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ledendal Games | |
 | /trace | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | flowty.dev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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