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Should I ship a Co-op Campaign Tower Defense?
Co-op Campaign + Tower Defense
Only 10 developers shipped a Co-op Campaign Tower Defense 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, Keep Keepers, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×6.5 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 $900 against a market of $1.5k. 26 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 25% | $5.8k (exactly $5,838) |
| Top 5% | $73k (exactly $72,860) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 up 320% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Tower Defense
- 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, Tower Defense
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 89% positive over 281 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 26 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + Puzzle PlatformerPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
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Comparable games
The Riftbreaker 2021 · $20M 
Orcs Must Die! 3 2021 · $9.8M 
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed 2020 · $2.8M 
Out of Ammo 2016 · $209k 
Colony Siege 2020 · $119k | 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 |
| | Orcs Must Die! 3 | older | $29.99 | 10,930 85% | 328k | $9.8M (exactly $9,833,721) | Robot Entertainment |
| | HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed | older | $24.99 | 3,798 90% | 114k | $2.8M (exactly $2,847,361) | Digital Cybercherries |
| | Out of Ammo | older | $9.99 | 699 84% | 21k | $209k (exactly $209,490) | RocketWerkz |
| | Colony Siege | older | $19.99 | 199 91% | 6.0k | $119k (exactly $119,340) | Finifugal Games |
 | Timemelters | older | $19.99 | 152 92% | 4.6k | $91k (exactly $91,154) | Autoexec Games |
 | Bish Bash Bots | older | $19.99 | 145 77% | 4.4k | $87k (exactly $86,956) | CATASTROPHIC_OVERLOAD |
 | Keep Keepers | $17.99 | 135 87% | 4.1k | $73k (exactly $72,860) | Thunderrock Innovations | |
 | Bunker Defense | older | $24.99 | 43 83% | 1.3k | $32k (exactly $32,237) | Goodvole |
 | Stellarcraft | $9.99 | 76 88% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | DreamStudios, Sandstorm in a Bottle | |
 | Cats go! : Tactical Defense Braw | $4.99 | 39 97% | 1.2k | $5.8k (exactly $5,838) | Minimum Studio Corp. | |
 | TransmuTowers | $4.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | Edenic Era LLC | |
 | TANK ZERO | $5.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | Emergency Exit | |
 | The B.L.O.O.M Initiative | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Trema-Coding | |
 | Portal Guardians | · EA | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Dual Quest Studios |
 | Die, Pablo! - A tower defense adventure | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Mike Karman | |
 | Sigma Protocol | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | NextGen Solutions LLC | |
 | Godcall Defense Line | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SEN |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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