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Should I ship a Local Co-Op Parkour game?
Parkour + Local Co-Op
Of 25 developers who shipped a Local Co-Op Parkour 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.. 39 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.0k, ×1.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $230k, ×378 the market median. Revenue is up 55% on the market; 39 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $7.0k (exactly $6,997) |
| Top 5% | $237k (exactly $237,125) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 25 |
| Released games | 61 |
| Announced | 39 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 55% on the market, supply 80% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Parkour
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Local Co-Op
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Parkour, Local Co-Op; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Co-op, Physics, Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $8.00 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, 3D, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $8.00 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 5,730 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 9 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 39 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CatsPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
Comparable games
Human Fall Flat 2016 · $105M 
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016 · $18M 
SpeedRunners 2016 · $10M 
Overgrowth 2017 · $3.7M 
SpiderHeck 2022 · $1.8M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Human Fall Flat | older | $19.99 | 174,835 94% | 5.2M | $105M (exactly $104,848,549) | No Brakes Games |
| | Ultimate Chicken Horse | older | $14.99 | 41,060 95% | 1.2M | $18M (exactly $18,464,682) | Clever Endeavour Games |
| | SpeedRunners | older | $14.99 | 22,842 94% | 685k | $10M (exactly $10,272,047) | DoubleDutch Games |
| | Overgrowth | older | $19.99 | 6,202 86% | 186k | $3.7M (exactly $3,719,339) | Wolfire Games |
| | SpiderHeck | older | $14.99 | 3,922 93% | 118k | $1.8M (exactly $1,763,723) | Neverjam |
 | N++ (NPLUSPLUS) | older | $14.99 | 2,825 95% | 85k | $1.3M (exactly $1,270,402) | Metanet Software Inc. |
 | VHOLUME | $8.00 | 2,992 97% | 90k | $718k (exactly $718,080) | Nathan Grange, Léonard Lemaitre, Niels… (Nathan Grange, Léonard Lemaitre, Niels Tiercelin) | |
 | Amazing Frog? 2 | · EA older | $19.99 | 726 77% | 22k | $435k (exactly $435,382) | Fayju |
 | Dustforce DX | older | $9.99 | 1,214 93% | 36k | $364k (exactly $363,836) | Hitbox Team |
 | Crumble | older | $14.99 | 681 89% | 20k | $306k (exactly $306,246) | BRUTE FORCE |
 | Paddle Paddle Paddle | $4.99 | 1,584 86% | 48k | $237k (exactly $237,125) | Zoroarts | |
 | Log Riders | $4.99 | 660 70% | 20k | $99k (exactly $98,802) | Bluespy Studios | |
 | An Eggstremely Hard Game | $4.99 | 196 84% | 5.9k | $29k (exactly $29,341) | BBear Studio | |
 | Turnip Mountain | $10.49 | 78 97% | 2.3k | $25k (exactly $24,547) | Luke Sanderson | |
 | Oblin Party | $7.99 | 85 91% | 2.6k | $20k (exactly $20,374) | Tellus Games | |
 | Drunk Builder Simulator | $2.99 | 78 39% | 2.3k | $7.0k (exactly $6,997) | Viper | |
 | Pecker | $9.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Fonteinsoft UG | |
 | SKID: Tori's Frozen Racing | $4.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | EVNA Games | |
 | Go Ahead | $5.49 | 15 86% | 450 | $2.5k (exactly $2,470) | Broken Project |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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