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Should I ship a Co-op Campaign Investigation game?
Co-op Campaign + Investigation
Only 5 developers shipped a Co-op Campaign Investigation 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, Big Walk, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×7.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $210k against a market of $1.5k. 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $600 (exactly $600) |
|---|---|
| Median | $210k (exactly $210,389) |
| Top 25% | $2.6M (exactly $2,573,912) |
| Top 5% | $19M (exactly $19,472,259) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 8 / 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 35% 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.
- Co-op Campaign
- effort 8 / 10 · low · shared campaign state over the network
- Investigation
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Co-op Campaign, Investigation
- 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 70,253 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 15 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Co-op Campaign with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ZombiesPoor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + SurvivalPoor odds
- + HorrorPoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + Puzzle PlatformerPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
Comparable games
Big Walk 2026 · $19M 
We Were Here Together 2019 · $5.6M 
Operation: Tango 2021 · $4.3M 
We Were Here Too 2018 · $2.7M 
Escape Simulator 2 2025 · $2.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Big Walk | $19.99 | 32,470 95% | 974k | $19M (exactly $19,472,259) | House House | |
| | We Were Here Together | older | $12.99 | 14,481 82% | 434k | $5.6M (exactly $5,643,246) | Total Mayhem Games |
| | Operation: Tango | older | $19.99 | 7,167 86% | 215k | $4.3M (exactly $4,298,050) | Clever Plays |
| | We Were Here Too | older | $9.99 | 9,005 78% | 270k | $2.7M (exactly $2,698,798) | Total Mayhem Games |
| | Escape Simulator 2 | $19.99 | 4,292 92% | 129k | $2.6M (exactly $2,573,912) | Pine Studio | |
 | How 2 Escape | older | $12.99 | 684 71% | 21k | $267k (exactly $266,555) | Breakfirst Games |
 | Parallel Experiment | $9.99 | 702 84% | 21k | $210k (exactly $210,389) | Eleven Puzzles | |
 | The Devourer: Hunted Souls | · EA older | $9.99 | 506 78% | 15k | $152k (exactly $151,648) | ZTEK Studio |
 | Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist | older | $7.99 | 482 85% | 14k | $116k (exactly $115,535) | 0 Deer Soft |
 | First Class Escape: The Train of Thought | older | $6.99 | 464 69% | 14k | $97k (exactly $97,301) | 0 Deer Soft |
 | Vanova's Stories | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Madgik Yarn Studio | |
 | Escape Hades's jails VR | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 1mPaCt' (JSD), DasProfGames (AL) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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