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Should I ship a 4 Player Local Parkour game?
Parkour + 4 Player Local
Only 19 developers shipped a 4 Player Local Parkour 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, SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.0k, ×1.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $89; 1 in 20 cleared $130k, ×213 the market median. Revenue is up 2240% on the market; 24 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $89 (exactly $89) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $20k (exactly $20,374) |
| Top 5% | $134k (exactly $133,966) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 52 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 up 2240% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Parkour
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 4 Player Local
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Parkour, 4 Player Local; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Physics, PvP
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, 2D, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 1,104 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $89. 9 in 10 of the 14 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerLong shot
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SkateboardingPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CatsPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
Comparable games
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016 · $18M 
SpeedRunners 2016 · $10M 
SpiderHeck 2022 · $1.8M 
N++ (NPLUSPLUS) 2016 · $1.3M 
Ben and Ed - Blood Party 2018 · $1.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ultimate Chicken Horse | older | $14.99 | 41,060 95% | 1.2M | $18M (exactly $18,464,682) | Clever Endeavour Games |
| | SpeedRunners | older | $14.99 | 22,842 94% | 685k | $10M (exactly $10,272,047) | DoubleDutch Games |
| | SpiderHeck | older | $14.99 | 3,922 93% | 118k | $1.8M (exactly $1,763,723) | Neverjam |
| | N++ (NPLUSPLUS) | older | $14.99 | 2,825 95% | 85k | $1.3M (exactly $1,270,402) | Metanet Software Inc. |
| | Ben and Ed - Blood Party | older | $14.99 | 2,297 88% | 69k | $1.0M (exactly $1,032,961) | Sluggerfly |
 | Amazing Frog? 2 | · EA older | $19.99 | 726 77% | 22k | $435k (exactly $435,382) | Fayju |
 | Dustforce DX | older | $9.99 | 1,214 93% | 36k | $364k (exactly $363,836) | Hitbox Team |
 | Crumble | older | $14.99 | 681 89% | 20k | $306k (exactly $306,246) | BRUTE FORCE |
 | SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed | $9.99 | 447 55% | 13k | $134k (exactly $133,966) | Fair Play Labs | |
 | Tricking 0 | · EA older | $19.99 | 107 89% | 3.2k | $64k (exactly $64,168) | Full-in Studios |
 | Knock'Em Out | $7.99 | 239 85% | 7.2k | $57k (exactly $57,288) | BBear Studio | |
 | Slip & Skid | $12.99 | 141 97% | 4.2k | $55k (exactly $54,948) | NHOGS Interactive | |
 | This Is No Cave | $6.99 | 127 96% | 3.8k | $27k (exactly $26,632) | monome.studio | |
 | Oblin Party | $7.99 | 85 91% | 2.6k | $20k (exactly $20,374) | Tellus Games | |
 | 4 Rush Together | $4.99 | 29 86% | 870 | $4.3k (exactly $4,341) | Honglizi | |
 | Animal Falling | $7.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | WOUAFL | |
 | Little Toys | $5.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | YLRG Entertainment | |
 | RAGDOLL UNIVERSE | · EA | $4.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | MageC |
 | Boiiing Boiiing | $6.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | SLMB's Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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