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Should I ship a Music Online Co-Op game?
Online Co-Op + Music
Only 12 developers shipped a Music Online 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, Ratatan, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.0k, ×3.4 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $480; 1 in 20 cleared $1.8M, ×1226 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 21 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $479 (exactly $479) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) |
| Top 25% | $90k (exactly $90,171) |
| Top 5% | $1.8M (exactly $1,836,015) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Online Co-Op
- effort 8 / 10 · low · netcode, lobbies and state sync across machines
- Music
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Online Co-Op
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 82% positive over 3,363 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 21 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Online Co-Op with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + GamblingFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + TransportationPoor odds
- + JRPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + City BuilderPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
Comparable games
Need for Speed™ Unbound 2022 · $105M 
Just Shapes & Beats 2018 · $14M 
Tetris® Effect: Connected 2021 · $10M 
Ratatan 2025 · EA · $1.8M 
Soundfall 2022 · $896k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Need for Speed™ Unbound | older | $69.99 | 49,862 61% | 1.5M | $105M (exactly $104,695,241) | Criterion Games |
| | Just Shapes & Beats | older | $19.99 | 24,041 97% | 721k | $14M (exactly $14,417,388) | Berzerk Studio |
| | Tetris® Effect: Connected | older | $39.99 | 8,429 94% | 253k | $10M (exactly $10,112,271) | Monstars Inc., Resonair, Stage Games |
| | Ratatan | · EA | $24.99 | 2,449 85% | 73k | $1.8M (exactly $1,836,015) | TVT Co. Ltd., Ratata Arts |
| | Soundfall | older | $29.99 | 996 73% | 30k | $896k (exactly $896,101) | Drastic Games |
 | Degrees of Separation | older | $19.99 | 1,011 80% | 30k | $606k (exactly $606,297) | Moondrop |
 | Blanc | older | $14.99 | 846 77% | 25k | $380k (exactly $380,446) | Casus Ludi |
 | SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE | older | $19.99 | 382 78% | 11k | $229k (exactly $229,085) | Second Impact Games |
 | HYPERBEAT | $14.99 | 381 99% | 11k | $171k (exactly $171,336) | Dreamware Media | |
 | Feather | older | $9.99 | 496 84% | 15k | $149k (exactly $148,651) | Samurai Punk |
 | Mimic Party | $6.99 | 430 46% | 13k | $90k (exactly $90,171) | FoliesAPP | |
 | Band Space | $19.99 | 46 78% | 1.4k | $28k (exactly $27,586) | Smartmelon Games | |
 | Night Club Simulator: Party King | · EA | $13.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $9.2k (exactly $9,233) | Bohem Games |
 | Lofi Haven | $7.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) | Meow Games | |
 | MusicHell | · EA | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Sindruid |
 | Git Gud | $3.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Absam Studios | |
 | Claviator | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Zero Inches | |
 | Terunyan to Amanoiwato | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Terunyan |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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