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Should I ship a 4 Player Local Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + 4 Player Local
Only 7 developers shipped a 4 Player Local Survival Horror 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, Lastbane, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×9.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.3k against a market of $630. 19 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $330 (exactly $330) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.3k (exactly $1,346) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) |
| Top 5% | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 60% 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.
- Survival Horror
- 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
- Survival Horror, 4 Player Local
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $4.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 57% positive over 3,376 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $330. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×9.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Sign of Silence 2020 · $268k 
Don't Shout Together 2024 · $70k 
Among Ass 2020 · $57k 
KunKun dream Startles the Soul 2024 · $38k 
Survive The Hill 2023 · $33k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sign of Silence | older | $4.99 | 1,787 52% | 54k | $268k (exactly $267,514) | Renderise |
| | Don't Shout Together | older | $4.99 | 470 30% | 14k | $70k (exactly $70,359) | SinisterGames |
| | Among Ass | older | $4.99 | 378 80% | 11k | $57k (exactly $56,587) | Volens Nolens Games |
| | KunKun dream Startles the Soul | older | $2.99 | 427 79% | 13k | $38k (exactly $38,302) | AIKUN |
| | Survive The Hill | older | $19.99 | 55 67% | 1.7k | $33k (exactly $32,984) | Redivided Studios |
 | A Technician's Nightmare | older | $1.99 | 171 78% | 5.1k | $10k (exactly $10,209) | Luzh. |
 | Beneath The Earth - Backrooms | older | $14.99 | 17 17% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | AI Gaming Dev |
 | Lastbane | · EA | $3.99 | 39 25% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | Lionstone Studio |
 | Toy Scrappers | $4.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | LoudScream | |
 | HE ESCAPED | older | $4.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | Manuel I. |
 | RADIOACTIVE INC. | $1.99 | 26 61% | 780 | $1.6k (exactly $1,552) | 45DK | |
 | Backrooms Escape Protocol | · EA | $2.99 | 15 13% | 450 | $1.3k (exactly $1,346) | Alarm Studio |
 | L.O.S.T - Last Ones Standing Together | · EA | $10.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $330 (exactly $330) | High Level Studio |
 | Beware The Ghost | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Goblinagerie | |
 | Breaking the Grip | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Imaginary Conception |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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