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Should I ship a Co-op Campaign Resource Management game?
Co-op Campaign + Resource Management
Only 6 developers shipped a Co-op Campaign Resource Management 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, My Supermarket, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×8.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $450 against a market of $1.5k. 32 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $22,213) |
| Top 5% | $112k (exactly $111,526) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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.
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
- Resource Management
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Co-op Campaign, Resource Management
- Price point
- $12.99 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 $7.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 28,956 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 32 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×8.0 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
The Riftbreaker 2021 · $20M 
Drug Dealer Simulator 2 2024 · $4.1M 
Bone's Cafe 2022 · $153k 
Charterstone: Digital Edition 2020 · $141k 
My Supermarket 2024 · $112k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Riftbreaker | older | $29.99 | 22,127 90% | 664k | $20M (exactly $19,907,662) | EXOR Studios |
| | Drug Dealer Simulator 2 | older | $24.99 | 5,480 69% | 164k | $4.1M (exactly $4,108,356) | Byterunners |
| | Bone's Cafe | older | $14.99 | 340 96% | 10k | $153k (exactly $152,898) | Acute Owl Studio |
| | Charterstone: Digital Edition | older | $19.99 | 235 76% | 7.1k | $141k (exactly $140,930) | Acram Digital |
| | My Supermarket | $14.99 | 248 87% | 7.4k | $112k (exactly $111,526) | NeroForge | |
 | Cook-Out | older | $19.99 | 169 89% | 5.1k | $101k (exactly $101,349) | Resolution Games |
 | Trackline Express | older | $14.99 | 124 84% | 3.7k | $56k (exactly $55,763) | Bubblebird Studio |
 | Bunker Defense | older | $24.99 | 43 83% | 1.3k | $32k (exactly $32,237) | Goodvole |
 | Potion Shop Simulator | $12.99 | 57 77% | 1.7k | $22k (exactly $22,213) | Pebbles Games, Bird Pals SIA | |
 | Dig Deep | older | $4.99 | 133 66% | 4.0k | $20k (exactly $19,910) | CrazyLabs |
 | Dig Baby Dig Company | · EA | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | SoMeh Studio |
 | Illustack | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Subaiism | |
 | Sparrow Country | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Binary Gauss Studio |
 | Horde Beyond | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Confident Media Group |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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