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Should I ship a 4 Player Local Third-Person Shooter?
Third-Person Shooter + 4 Player Local
Only 7 developers shipped a 4 Player Local Third-Person Shooter 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, Recess, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×6.7 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 $300 against a market of $1.5k. 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 5% | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Third-Person Shooter
- 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
- Third-Person Shooter, 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 6,815 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Third-Person Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RhythmStrong odds
- + WesternFair
- + CollectathonLong shot
- + Time ManagementLong shot
- + Walking SimulatorLong shot
- + Class-BasedPoor odds
- + Creature CollectorPoor odds
- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Level EditorPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
Comparable games
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed 2020 · $2.8M 
DAVIGO: VR vs. PC 2023 · EA · $900k 
Amazing Frog? 2 2022 · EA · $435k 
Shadowgrounds Survivor 2007 · $175k 
ZCREW 2022 · $70k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed | older | $24.99 | 3,798 90% | 114k | $2.8M (exactly $2,847,361) | Digital Cybercherries |
| | DAVIGO: VR vs. PC | · EA older | $24.99 | 1,200 84% | 36k | $900k (exactly $899,640) | Davigo Studio |
| | Amazing Frog? 2 | · EA older | $19.99 | 726 77% | 22k | $435k (exactly $435,382) | Fayju |
| | Shadowgrounds Survivor | older | $9.99 | 583 62% | 17k | $175k (exactly $174,725) | Frozenbyte |
| | ZCREW | older | $6.99 | 333 51% | 10k | $70k (exactly $69,830) | Emotion Studio |
 | Late For Work | older | $14.99 | 78 88% | 2.3k | $35k (exactly $35,077) | Salmi Games |
 | Survive The Hill | older | $19.99 | 55 67% | 1.7k | $33k (exactly $32,984) | Redivided Studios |
 | The Otterman Empire | older | $15.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $6.7k (exactly $6,716) | Tri-Heart Interactive |
 | Tango Fiesta | older | $9.99 | 19 68% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | Spilt Milk Studios Ltd |
 | Mutant Crisis | older | $11.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $3.2k (exactly $3,237) | Quark Game Studio |
 | Recess | $9.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Lost Echoes Interactive | |
 | RAGDOLL UNIVERSE | · EA | $4.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | MageC |
 | Slalomancers | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Kwing | |
 | MonsterEnd | $4.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | XiaoDongMa | |
 | Delivery Mayhem | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Volantibus | |
 | Big Bad Soccer | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | www.superstargames.co.uk | |
 | Toad Turf | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gatos Malos LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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