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Should I ship a Robot Co-op Campaign game?
Co-op Campaign + Robots
Only 8 developers shipped a Robot Co-op Campaign 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, LEGO® Horizon Adventures™, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×6.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.1k against a market of $1.5k. 20 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
| Top 25% | $81k (exactly $80,973) |
| Top 5% | $483k (exactly $483,479) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 up 330% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Robots
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Co-op Campaign
- Price point
- $11.99 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 $11.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 5,462 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Co-op Campaign with a different setting or mood, 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
Raw Data 2017 · $2.4M 
Blazing Chrome 2019 · $676k 
LEGO® Horizon Adventures™ 2024 · $483k 
Death Squared 2017 · $212k 
NeuroVoider 2016 · $206k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Raw Data | older | $39.99 | 2,036 81% | 61k | $2.4M (exactly $2,442,589) | Survios |
| | Blazing Chrome | older | $16.99 | 1,326 89% | 40k | $676k (exactly $675,862) | JoyMasher |
| | LEGO® Horizon Adventures™ | $39.99 | 403 60% | 12k | $483k (exactly $483,479) | Guerrilla Games, Studio Gobo | |
| | Death Squared | older | $14.99 | 471 90% | 14k | $212k (exactly $211,809) | SMG Studio |
| | NeuroVoider | older | $13.99 | 492 77% | 15k | $206k (exactly $206,492) | Flying Oak Games |
 | Boti: Byteland Overclocked | older | $19.99 | 295 68% | 8.9k | $177k (exactly $176,912) | Purple Ray Studio |
 | Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids | $29.99 | 90 83% | 2.7k | $81k (exactly $80,973) | Snapshot Games Inc. | |
 | Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax | older | $9.99 | 186 91% | 5.6k | $56k (exactly $55,744) | Dreamloop Games |
 | RoboDunk | older | $14.99 | 90 95% | 2.7k | $40k (exactly $40,473) | Jollypunch Games |
 | Bytebond | $11.99 | 73 89% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $26,258) | DVD Unicorns | |
 | Anarchy Road | $5.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | Bunker Brothers LLC | |
 | Bot & Tic | · EA | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Twinties |
 | Ultra Mega Planet Battles | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Solindie Games | |
 | IAI | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Sola | |
 | Relay Protocol | · EA | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gustavo Rios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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