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Should I ship a Superhero Online Co-Op game?
Online Co-Op + Superhero
Only 6 developers shipped a Superhero 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, Invincible VS, 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, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $83k, ×56 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $3.3k; 1 in 20 cleared $4.5M, ×3034 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 18 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $3.2k (exactly $3,235) |
|---|---|
| Median | $83k (exactly $83,217) |
| Top 25% | $2.1M (exactly $2,067,511) |
| Top 5% | $4.5M (exactly $4,545,591) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $24.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 27%, 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
- Superhero
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Online Co-Op
- Price point
- $24.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $59.99 or above; the middle game at $19.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 155,040 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.3k. 18 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected 2013 · $34M 
Gotham Knights 2022 · $28M 
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 2024 · $27M 
Injustice™ 2 2017 · $26M 
LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes 2013 · $14M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Saints Row IV: Re-Elected | older | $19.99 | 57,525 87% | 1.7M | $34M (exactly $34,497,742) | Deep Silver Volition |
| | Gotham Knights | older | $59.99 | 15,688 68% | 471k | $28M (exactly $28,233,694) | Warner Bros. Games Montréal, QLOC |
| | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League | older | $69.99 | 12,718 60% | 382k | $27M (exactly $26,703,985) | Rocksteady Studios |
| | Injustice™ 2 | older | $49.99 | 17,445 86% | 523k | $26M (exactly $26,162,266) | NetherRealm Studios, QLOC |
| | LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes | older | $19.99 | 22,663 95% | 680k | $14M (exactly $13,591,001) | Traveller's Tales |
 | Invincible VS | $49.99 | 3,031 76% | 91k | $4.5M (exactly $4,545,591) | Quarter Up | |
 | LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham | older | $19.99 | 7,521 88% | 226k | $4.5M (exactly $4,510,344) | TT Games Ltd |
 | DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS | older | $29.99 | 4,983 50% | 149k | $4.5M (exactly $4,483,205) | Dimps Corporation |
 | LEGO® Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes | older | $19.99 | 7,473 94% | 224k | $4.5M (exactly $4,481,558) | TT Games |
 | LEGO® MARVEL's Avengers | older | $19.99 | 5,993 88% | 180k | $3.6M (exactly $3,594,002) | Traveller's Tales, TT Games, Feral Inte… (Traveller's Tales, TT Games, Feral Interactive (Mac)) |
 | MARVEL Cosmic Invasion | $29.99 | 2,298 88% | 69k | $2.1M (exactly $2,067,511) | Tribute Games Inc. | |
 | MARVEL MaXimum Collection | $24.99 | 111 76% | 3.3k | $83k (exactly $83,217) | Limited Run Games | |
 | QUADRICOLOR: Ultra Sentai Color Ranger | $12.99 | 27 96% | 810 | $11k (exactly $10,522) | Quadri Team | |
 | Robbing Time | · EA | $5.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $3.2k (exactly $3,235) | Monday Squid |
 | Super Nova | $5.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | DIG Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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