Games › Online Co-Op › Online Co-Op + Boomer Shooter
Should I ship an Online Co-Op Boomer Shooter?
Online Co-Op + Boomer Shooter
Only 13 developers shipped an Online Co-Op Boomer 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, Painkiller, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.9k, ×4.6 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $810; 1 in 20 cleared $1.3M, ×874 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 18 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $809 (exactly $809) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) |
| Top 25% | $548k (exactly $548,031) |
| Top 5% | $1.3M (exactly $1,308,873) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 down 90% on the market, supply 235% more 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.
- Online Co-Op
- effort 8 / 10 · low · netcode, lobbies and state sync across machines
- Boomer Shooter
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Online Co-Op, Boomer Shooter
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 6,095 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $810. 18 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Online Co-Op with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Bullet HeavenStrong odds
- + Escape RoomFair
- + TypingFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + TransportationPoor odds
- + JRPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + City BuilderPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
Comparable games
Serious Sam II 2012 · $3.6M 
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem 2022 · $2.8M 
Painkiller 2025 · $1.3M 
FUMES 2025 · EA · $1.3M 
MOTHERGUNSHIP 2018 · $816k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Serious Sam II | older | $9.99 | 11,953 89% | 359k | $3.6M (exactly $3,582,314) | Croteam |
| | Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem | older | $19.99 | 4,723 92% | 142k | $2.8M (exactly $2,832,383) | Croteam, Timelock Studio |
| | Painkiller | $39.99 | 1,091 54% | 33k | $1.3M (exactly $1,308,873) | Anshar Studios | |
| | FUMES | · EA | $14.99 | 2,816 95% | 84k | $1.3M (exactly $1,266,355) | FUMES team |
| | MOTHERGUNSHIP | older | $24.99 | 1,088 77% | 33k | $816k (exactly $815,674) | Terrible Posture Games, Grip Digital |
 | Agent 64: Spies Never Die | $21.64 | 863 86% | 26k | $560k (exactly $560,260) | Replicant D6 | |
 | Moros Protocol | $24.99 | 731 81% | 22k | $548k (exactly $548,031) | Pixel Reign | |
 | Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter | older | $19.99 | 771 91% | 23k | $462k (exactly $462,369) | Croteam |
 | Daikatana | older | $6.99 | 806 58% | 24k | $169k (exactly $169,018) | Ion Storm |
 | Desecrators | $14.99 | 327 96% | 9.8k | $147k (exactly $147,052) | Woodhound | |
 | AFTERBLAST | · EA | $14.99 | 223 76% | 6.7k | $100k (exactly $100,283) | Lumino Games |
 | VEX MAGE | $9.99 | 23 95% | 690 | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) | Nervous Systems | |
 | Spacepunk Survival | $9.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Tavern Tale Studio | |
 | Ghost Battalion | $18.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $2.8k (exactly $2,848) | Weary Road Productions | |
 | Stickplosion | · EA | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Ghost World Gaming |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.