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Should I ship a Cold-War Co-op game?
Co-op + Cold War
Only 6 developers shipped a Cold-War Co-op 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, Wild Assault, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×5.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $83k against a market of $1.5k. 23 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.3k (exactly $1,336) |
|---|---|
| Median | $83k (exactly $82,759) |
| Top 25% | $1.1M (exactly $1,122,826) |
| Top 5% | $1.7M (exactly $1,736,292) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $19.99 |
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 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Co-op
- Price point
- $19.99 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 $19.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 94,771 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.4k. 4 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War 2023 · $40M 
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2010 · $27M 
WARNO 2024 · $17M 
Wargame: Red Dragon 2014 · $14M 
Wargame: Airland Battle 2013 · $2.2M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War | older | $59.99 | 21,955 79% | 659k | $40M (exactly $39,512,414) | Treyarch, Raven Software, High Moon Stu… (Treyarch, Raven Software, High Moon Studios, Beenox, Activision Shanghai, Sledgehammer Games) |
| | Call of Duty®: Black Ops | older | $39.99 | 22,244 91% | 667k | $27M (exactly $26,686,127) | Treyarch |
| | WARNO | older | $39.99 | 14,502 80% | 435k | $17M (exactly $17,398,049) | Eugen Systems |
| | Wargame: Red Dragon | older | $29.99 | 15,758 88% | 473k | $14M (exactly $14,177,473) | Eugen Systems |
| | Wargame: Airland Battle | older | $19.99 | 3,592 86% | 108k | $2.2M (exactly $2,154,122) | Eugen Systems |
 | Wild Assault | $14.99 | 3,861 68% | 116k | $1.7M (exactly $1,736,292) | Combat Cat Studio | |
 | DEFCON | older | $11.99 | 3,460 86% | 104k | $1.2M (exactly $1,244,562) | Introversion Software |
 | ICBM: Escalation | $29.99 | 1,248 86% | 37k | $1.1M (exactly $1,122,826) | SoftWarWare | |
 | Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising | older | $6.96 | 4,572 84% | 137k | $955k (exactly $954,634) | EA Los Angeles |
 | Sniper Elite | older | $7.99 | 3,579 76% | 107k | $858k (exactly $857,886) | Rebellion |
 | F-22: Air Dominance Fighter | $19.99 | 138 91% | 4.1k | $83k (exactly $82,759) | Digital Image Design Ltd. | |
 | Source Code | $19.99 | 33 60% | 990 | $20k (exactly $19,790) | Blitzball.Inc | |
 | Chornobyl Breakout | $0.99 | 45 71% | 1.4k | $1.3k (exactly $1,336) | Dark Duck Games | |
 | Cold Transit | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | cmlodev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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