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Should I ship a Local Multiplayer Football (Soccer) game?
Football (Soccer) + Local Multiplayer
Of 32 developers who shipped a Local Multiplayer Football (Soccer) game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 40 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×0.6 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $590k, ×396 the market median. Revenue is up 90% on the market; 40 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $479 (exactly $479) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $14,889) |
| Top 5% | $594k (exactly $593,901) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 32 |
| Released games | 117 |
| Announced | 40 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 90% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Football (Soccer)
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Local Multiplayer
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Football (Soccer), Local Multiplayer; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry PvP, Sports, Local Co-Op
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $59.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Cartoony, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $59.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 50% positive over 100,438 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 9 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 40 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Football (Soccer) with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Life SimFair
- + EconomyFair
- + Local Co-OpLong shot
- + Football (American)Long shot
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + 4 Player LocalPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Turn-Based TacticsPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + Resource ManagementPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + StrategyPoor odds
Comparable games
EA SPORTS FC™ 26 2025 · $209M 
Football, Tactics & Glory 2018 · $3.0M 
WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024 2024 · $901k 
WE ARE FOOTBALL 2021 · $629k 
CAPTAIN TSUBASA 2: WORLD FIGHTERS 2026 · $594k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | EA SPORTS FC™ 26 | $69.99 | 99,773 50% | 3.0M | $209M (exactly $209,493,368) | EA Canada, EA Romania | |
| | Football, Tactics & Glory | older | $24.99 | 3,998 87% | 120k | $3.0M (exactly $2,997,301) | Creoteam |
| | WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024 | older | $39.99 | 751 79% | 23k | $901k (exactly $900,975) | Winning Streak Games GmbH |
| | WE ARE FOOTBALL | older | $24.99 | 839 75% | 25k | $629k (exactly $628,998) | Winning Streak Games |
| | CAPTAIN TSUBASA 2: WORLD FIGHTERS | $59.99 | 330 50% | 9.9k | $594k (exactly $593,901) | TAMSOFT CORPORATION | |
 | Adorables | older | $29.99 | 502 80% | 15k | $452k (exactly $451,649) | White Rabbit |
 | Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition | older | $16.99 | 876 83% | 26k | $446k (exactly $446,497) | BATOVI Games |
 | Kopanito All-Stars Soccer | older | $5.99 | 2,434 84% | 73k | $437k (exactly $437,390) | Merixgames |
 | Bang Average Football – Play, Manage, Create | older | $11.99 | 415 95% | 12k | $149k (exactly $149,276) | ruairi dx |
 | Toasterball | older | $9.99 | 324 96% | 9.7k | $97k (exactly $97,103) | Les Crafteurs |
 | Gaelic Football Laochra | $34.99 | 52 78% | 1.6k | $55k (exactly $54,584) | Buck Eejit Games | |
 | Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports | $49.99 | 34 79% | 1.0k | $51k (exactly $50,990) | Bamtang Games | |
 | Pimbolas | $9.99 | 89 94% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,673) | Nano Knight Studio | |
 | Lacrosse 26 | $34.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $18k (exactly $17,845) | Crosse Studios | |
 | Beat The Champions | $19.99 | 26 73% | 780 | $16k (exactly $15,592) | Purple Tree S R L, Whiteboard Games | |
 | Drunken FC | · EA | $6.99 | 71 80% | 2.1k | $15k (exactly $14,889) | Sloppy Games, Red Herring Labs |
 | Wild Rumble | $14.99 | 33 87% | 990 | $15k (exactly $14,840) | Mean Mink | |
 | Tactics Unlimited | · EA | $19.99 | 13 30% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | 2tainment |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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