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Should I ship a 4 Player Local Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + 4 Player Local
Only 11 developers shipped a 4 Player Local Spectacle fighter 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, Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $600 against a market of $1.5k. 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $168 (exactly $168) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) |
| Top 5% | $87k (exactly $86,956) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.60 |
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 30% on the market, supply 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- 4 Player Local
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, 4 Player Local
- Price point
- $5.60 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 90% positive over 245 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $170. 8 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
DAVIGO: VR vs. PC 2023 · EA · $900k 
Toasterball 2023 · $97k 
Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age 2024 · $87k 
Mighty Fight Federation 2021 · $13k 
King's Blade 2025 · $13k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DAVIGO: VR vs. PC | · EA older | $24.99 | 1,200 84% | 36k | $900k (exactly $899,640) | Davigo Studio |
| | Toasterball | older | $9.99 | 324 96% | 9.7k | $97k (exactly $97,103) | Les Crafteurs |
| | Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age | $19.99 | 145 91% | 4.4k | $87k (exactly $86,956) | Maximum Entertainment | |
| | Mighty Fight Federation | older | $14.99 | 30 76% | 900 | $13k (exactly $13,491) | Komi Games Inc. |
| | King's Blade | $8.99 | 49 81% | 1.5k | $13k (exactly $13,215) | Alexey Suslin | |
 | There Will Be Ink | older | $6.99 | 30 93% | 900 | $6.3k (exactly $6,291) | Summit Fever |
 | Go All Out | older | $9.99 | 18 61% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Blue Sunset Games |
 | Spell Swap | older | $6.99 | 23 91% | 690 | $4.8k (exactly $4,823) | Teagher Studio |
 | Double Turn | older | $4.99 | 19 47% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Inwave Labs |
 | 女神試煉 Quest of Goddess | $4.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | DNAXCAT CO., LTD. | |
 | MechaCap Arena | $7.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | Paraflux Games | |
 | KBF: Knight Bar Fight | $3.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.6k (exactly $1,556) | KBF Team | |
 | Bumper Brawlers | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Gyxos | |
 | SuperSerpentSnake3D | $0.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | HTNG Studio | |
 | Overball | $5.60 | 1 100% | 30 | $168 (exactly $168) | ArechGames | |
 | PunchBots | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ghost Creative Studio | |
 | Brawlmageddon | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | LUO BIN STUDIO |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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