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Should I ship a Crime Local Co-Op game?
Local Co-Op + Crime
Only 6 developers shipped a Crime Local Co-Op 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, Monaco 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×4.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.6k against a market of $630. 13 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $148 (exactly $148) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) |
| Top 25% | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) |
| Top 5% | $70k (exactly $70,153) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 1790% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Local Co-Op
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Crime
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Local Co-Op
- 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $14.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 126,624 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 13 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Local Co-Op with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Board GameFair
- + Dungeon CrawlerFair
- + MedievalFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + Point & ClickFair
Comparable games
A Way Out 2020 · $70M 
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted 2020 · $15M 
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me 2022 · $4.5M 
LEGO® City Undercover 2017 · $4.4M 
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days 2010 · $2.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | A Way Out | older | $29.99 | 78,174 87% | 2.3M | $70M (exactly $70,333,148) | Hazelight Studios |
| | Need for Speed™ Most Wanted | older | $19.99 | 25,197 77% | 756k | $15M (exactly $15,110,641) | Criterion Games |
| | The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me | older | $39.99 | 3,778 56% | 113k | $4.5M (exactly $4,532,467) | Supermassive Games |
| | LEGO® City Undercover | older | $19.99 | 7,414 91% | 222k | $4.4M (exactly $4,446,176) | Traveller's Tales |
| | Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days | older | $9.99 | 6,813 68% | 204k | $2.0M (exactly $2,041,856) | IO Interactive |
 | Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine | older | $14.99 | 3,756 92% | 113k | $1.7M (exactly $1,689,073) | Pocketwatch Games |
 | Fast and Low | older | $19.99 | 736 82% | 22k | $441k (exactly $441,379) | Urban Giraffe Games Inc. |
 | Hot Brass | older | $14.99 | 488 81% | 15k | $219k (exactly $219,454) | Walk with Kings |
 | Monaco 2 | $14.99 | 156 63% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $70,153) | Pocketwatch Games | |
 | Raging Justice | older | $14.99 | 112 78% | 3.4k | $50k (exactly $50,366) | MakinGames Ltd |
 | SusDoku: Clues & Suspects | $4.99 | 37 35% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | MyNeuronal | |
 | Heist Haven | · EA | $12.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) | Somehow Games |
 | Clippy Commando | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Daniel Harnden | |
 | Streets of Fear | $0.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | Willoughby Games | |
 | Escape Team | $15.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Fabian Hemmert |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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