Games › Boxing › Boxing + Local Multiplayer
Should I ship a Local Multiplayer Boxing game?
Boxing + Local Multiplayer
Only 7 developers shipped a Local Multiplayer Boxing 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, Undisputed, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×11 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.6k against a market of $630. 21 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) |
| Top 25% | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) |
| Top 5% | $29M (exactly $28,779,243) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 5 / 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: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Boxing
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Local Multiplayer
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Boxing, Local Multiplayer
- 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 65% positive over 24,060 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×11 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Boxing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + SimulationFair
- + StrategyPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + 2D FighterPoor odds
- + Martial ArtsPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + SportsPoor odds
- + ActionPoor odds
- + CombatPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Undisputed 2024 · $29M 
Punch A Bunch 2023 · $433k 
Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions 2021 · $110k 
Kandidatos 2020 · $103k 
Bloody Knuckles Street Boxing 2024 · EA · $94k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Undisputed | $49.99 | 19,190 60% | 576k | $29M (exactly $28,779,243) | Steel City Interactive | |
| | Punch A Bunch | older | $14.99 | 963 74% | 29k | $433k (exactly $433,061) | Pontypants |
| | Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions | older | $39.99 | 92 65% | 2.8k | $110k (exactly $110,372) | Survios |
| | Kandidatos | older | $0.99 | 3,461 90% | 104k | $103k (exactly $102,792) | Shaikonina Games |
| | Bloody Knuckles Street Boxing | · EA older | $14.99 | 210 52% | 6.3k | $94k (exactly $94,437) | Luvseatshawty |
 | Art of Boxing | · EA older | $11.99 | 70 37% | 2.1k | $25k (exactly $25,179) | Gold From Straw Games |
 | Dragon Fury | older | $19.99 | 15 60% | 450 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Esenthel |
 | Brainrot Animals Fighting | $1.99 | 35 71% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) | River Way Studios | |
 | Genki Break! | $4.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | SteamyDev | |
 | Superation | $4.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Moonsaurus Games | |
 | Slap Master | · EA | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Inkby.Sainz |
 | Flame Up | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Charming Moon | |
 | ARVIS Knock Out! | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Mindfly Studio |
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.