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Should I ship a Co-op Campaign Twin Stick Shooter?
Co-op Campaign + Twin Stick Shooter
Only 12 developers shipped a Co-op Campaign Twin Stick Shooter 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, No Way Home, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×4.8 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 $630 against a market of $1.5k. 19 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $628 (exactly $628) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 5% | $23k (exactly $22,777) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 47 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 140% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- Twin Stick Shooter
- 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, Twin Stick Shooter
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 143 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Co-op Campaign with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + SurvivalPoor odds
- + HorrorPoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + Puzzle PlatformerPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
Comparable games
Nine Parchments 2017 · $2.5M 
War Mongrels 2021 · $2.5M 
POSTAL Redux 2016 · $1.8M 
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light 2010 · $1.1M 
LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™ 2014 · $757k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nine Parchments | older | $19.99 | 4,123 77% | 124k | $2.5M (exactly $2,472,563) | Frozenbyte |
| | War Mongrels | older | $44.99 | 1,826 72% | 55k | $2.5M (exactly $2,464,552) | Destructive Creations |
| | POSTAL Redux | older | $8.99 | 6,745 92% | 202k | $1.8M (exactly $1,819,126) | Running With Scissors |
| | Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light | older | $9.99 | 3,566 92% | 107k | $1.1M (exactly $1,068,730) | Crystal Dynamics |
| | LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™ | older | $19.99 | 1,262 68% | 38k | $757k (exactly $756,821) | Crystal Dynamics |
 | 9th Dawn III | older | $15.99 | 501 87% | 15k | $240k (exactly $240,330) | Valorware |
 | NeuroVoider | older | $13.99 | 492 77% | 15k | $206k (exactly $206,492) | Flying Oak Games |
 | Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax | older | $9.99 | 186 91% | 5.6k | $56k (exactly $55,744) | Dreamloop Games |
 | No Way Home | $9.99 | 76 88% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | SMG Studio | |
 | Toy Tanks | older | $9.99 | 64 89% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $19,181) | Fuzzy Sock Studios |
 | Yarn Guardians | $14.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | pentapaw studios | |
 | Invasion Protocol | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | GoldenGod Games | |
 | Roguevive | $1.99 | 23 69% | 690 | $1.4k (exactly $1,373) | Chiorco | |
 | Super Firefighter | $6.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | William Giguère | |
 | The B.L.O.O.M Initiative | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Trema-Coding | |
 | BattleTanks - Animal Wars | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Kasur Games | |
 | Exterminators of Saturn | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Violence in Video Games | |
 | Questwood | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Lyrical Games | |
 | WARPED | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Starbound Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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