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Should I ship a Local Co-Op Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Local Co-Op
Only 18 developers shipped a Local Co-Op Real Time Tactics 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, Summer Islands, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×2.9 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 $50; 1 in 20 cleared $85k, ×136 the market median. Revenue is down 85% on the market; 26 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
| Top 5% | $85k (exactly $85,443) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 60 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 85% on the market, supply as many developers as 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.
- Real Time Tactics
- 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
- Real Time Tactics, Local Co-Op; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Co-op, Strategy, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 393 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 26 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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DG2: Defense Grid 2 2014 · $810k 
BattleGroupVR 2023 · $643k 
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Hot Brass 2021 · $219k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Legend of Mana | older | $29.99 | 1,132 78% | 34k | $1.0M (exactly $1,018,460) | Square Enix, M2 Co., Ltd. |
| | DG2: Defense Grid 2 | older | $9.99 | 2,704 86% | 81k | $810k (exactly $810,389) | Hidden Path Entertainment |
| | BattleGroupVR | older | $24.99 | 858 92% | 26k | $643k (exactly $643,243) | SpaceOwl Games |
| | Atom Zombie Smasher | older | $9.99 | 1,109 89% | 33k | $332k (exactly $332,367) | Blendo Games |
| | Hot Brass | older | $14.99 | 488 81% | 15k | $219k (exactly $219,454) | Walk with Kings |
 | College Bowl | older | $24.99 | 263 84% | 7.9k | $197k (exactly $197,171) | Super Pixel Games |
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 | Let's Cook Together | older | $15.99 | 211 97% | 6.3k | $101k (exactly $101,217) | Yellow Dot |
 | Summer Islands | $14.99 | 190 81% | 5.7k | $85k (exactly $85,443) | Marttalin Games | |
 | Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids | $29.99 | 90 83% | 2.7k | $81k (exactly $80,973) | Snapshot Games Inc. | |
 | Only Out | $4.99 | 40 95% | 1.2k | $6.0k (exactly $5,988) | Shark Studio | |
 | Carnival Heroes - Super party minigames | $3.99 | 39 97% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | LAN - GAMES LTD | |
 | Crypt Crawler | $7.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Wild Domain | |
 | Vulcard | · EA | $11.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $2.2k (exactly $2,158) | Goblin Games Studio |
 | Xeno Rangers | $11.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | 9000 Legends | |
 | ATAK - Angry Tusslin' Awesome Knights | $14.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) | 3Z | |
 | Boiiing Boiiing | $6.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | SLMB's Games | |
 | Spikeball Smash | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | VRMonkey |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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