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Should I ship a Steampunk Online Co-Op game?
Online Co-Op + Steampunk
Only 13 developers shipped a Steampunk 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, SAND: Raiders of Sophie, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, ×0.4 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 35 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper, while revenue is down 100% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $31k (exactly $31,479) |
| Top 5% | $9.4M (exactly $9,360,004) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 39 |
| Announced | 35 |
| 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 down 100% on the market, supply 235% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Steampunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Online Co-Op; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Character Customization, Co-op
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 9 games average 60% positive over 18,440 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 35 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Torchlight II 2012 · $20M 
Torchlight III 2020 · $12M 
Iron Harvest 2020 · $11M 
SAND: Raiders of Sophie 2026 · EA · $9.4M 
Volcanoids 2019 · EA · $4.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Torchlight II | older | $19.99 | 33,094 92% | 993k | $20M (exactly $19,846,472) | Runic Games |
| | Torchlight III | older | $39.99 | 10,401 47% | 312k | $12M (exactly $12,478,080) | Echtra Inc. |
| | Iron Harvest | older | $29.99 | 11,682 74% | 350k | $11M (exactly $10,510,295) | KING Art |
| | SAND: Raiders of Sophie | · EA | $24.99 | 12,485 49% | 375k | $9.4M (exactly $9,360,004) | Hologryph, TowerHaus |
| | Volcanoids | · EA older | $19.99 | 7,679 83% | 230k | $4.6M (exactly $4,605,096) | Volcanoid |
 | Abyssus | $24.99 | 5,014 84% | 150k | $3.8M (exactly $3,758,996) | DoubleMoose Games | |
 | We Need To Go Deeper | older | $15.99 | 4,652 86% | 140k | $2.2M (exactly $2,231,564) | Deli Interactive LLC |
 | Victor Vran ARPG | older | $19.99 | 3,708 84% | 111k | $2.2M (exactly $2,223,688) | Haemimont Games |
 | Guns of Icarus Online | older | $4.99 | 8,245 91% | 247k | $1.2M (exactly $1,234,276) | Muse Games |
 | Deathtrap | older | $19.99 | 1,858 84% | 56k | $1.1M (exactly $1,114,243) | NeocoreGames |
 | Super Mining Mechs | $4.99 | 841 86% | 25k | $126k (exactly $125,898) | Delayed Victory | |
 | The Last Citadel | $14.99 | 70 85% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,479) | Honest Demon | |
 | Rhyolite | $9.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Long Lost | |
 | The Great Smog | · EA | $12.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $779 (exactly $779) | JFi Games |
 | GYROPIA | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Farkas Interactive | |
 | Drill Crew | · EA | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Renvati Games |
 | Steampunks 1869 | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Archor Wright | |
 | Breeze of Ashes | $12.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chocolate Ship Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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