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Should I ship a Horror Split Screen game?
Split Screen + Horror
Only 16 developers shipped a Horror Split Screen 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, Little Nightmares III, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.3k, ×6.8 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $1.8k. Revenue is flat on the market; 18 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.3k (exactly $4,287) |
| Top 25% | $18k (exactly $17,625) |
| Top 5% | $12M (exactly $12,194,950) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 51 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 flat on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Split Screen
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Horror
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Split Screen; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Shooter, Stealth
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $39.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Dark
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 48% positive over 10,776 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.8k. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Split Screen with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Automobile SimStrong odds
- + DrivingFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + SportsFair
- + RPGFair
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + CollectathonPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Tower DefensePoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
Comparable games
Resident Evil 6 2013 · $31M 
Resident Evil 5 2009 · $29M 
Gears 5 2019 · $19M 
Little Nightmares III 2025 · $12M 
Distance 2018 · $4.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Resident Evil 6 | older | $19.99 | 51,420 77% | 1.5M | $31M (exactly $30,836,574) | Capcom |
| | Resident Evil 5 | older | $19.99 | 48,521 87% | 1.5M | $29M (exactly $29,098,044) | Capcom |
| | Gears 5 | older | $29.99 | 21,210 72% | 636k | $19M (exactly $19,082,637) | The Coalition |
| | Little Nightmares III | $39.99 | 10,165 46% | 305k | $12M (exactly $12,194,950) | Supermassive Games | |
| | Distance | older | $24.99 | 5,832 93% | 175k | $4.4M (exactly $4,372,250) | Refract |
 | Hellpoint | older | $34.99 | 2,582 76% | 77k | $2.7M (exactly $2,710,325) | Cradle Games |
 | Painkiller Hell & Damnation | older | $19.99 | 2,935 78% | 88k | $1.8M (exactly $1,760,119) | The Farm 51 |
 | Ben and Ed - Blood Party | older | $14.99 | 2,297 88% | 69k | $1.0M (exactly $1,032,961) | Sluggerfly |
 | THE 4 SINS | older | $9.99 | 3,377 23% | 101k | $1.0M (exactly $1,012,087) | 奇门互娱 |
 | Space Beast Terror Fright | older | $14.99 | 1,255 91% | 38k | $564k (exactly $564,374) | nornware AB |
 | Escape From Mandrillia: Local Asymmetric VR+PC | $12.99 | 181 95% | 5.4k | $71k (exactly $70,536) | German Bandera | |
 | MeowGun: Hell Denizen | $12.99 | 114 98% | 3.4k | $44k (exactly $44,426) | SusaDeBastet | |
 | Lurking Danger | $11.99 | 49 65% | 1.5k | $18k (exactly $17,625) | Farelas | |
 | Horror Royale | $5.99 | 56 66% | 1.7k | $10k (exactly $10,063) | Ben Wade | |
 | Falling Face Fragments | $1.99 | 140 95% | 4.2k | $8.4k (exactly $8,358) | AshumArcade | |
 | Only Out | $4.99 | 40 95% | 1.2k | $6.0k (exactly $5,988) | Shark Studio | |
 | Spectator 3 | $12.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $4.3k (exactly $4,287) | Neko Machine, Minechan | |
 | Deepest Trench | $14.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Favor Games | |
 | Carnal Rage | $9.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | TailsUp4Tyranno |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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