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Should I ship an Online Co-Op Walking Simulator?
Online Co-Op + Walking Simulator
Of 53 developers who shipped an Online Co-Op Walking Simulator 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.. 88 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×1.3 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $480k, ×326 the market median. Revenue is up 445% on the market; 88 games are announced against 37 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $598 (exactly $598) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) |
| Top 25% | $17k (exactly $16,766) |
| Top 5% | $489k (exactly $488,920) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 53 |
| Released games | 126 |
| Announced | 88 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 445% on the market, supply 95% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Walking Simulator
- 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, Walking Simulator; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Co-op, Exploration, Simulation
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, First-Person, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 15,392 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 7 in 10 of the 28 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 88 games are announced against 37 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
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Comparable games
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017 · $102M 
Cube World 2019 · $5.9M 
Call of the Wild: The Angler™ 2022 · $5.5M 
Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek 2026 · $1.7M 
Animalia Survival 2021 · EA · $1.7M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | theHunter: Call of the Wild™ | older | $19.99 | 170,472 89% | 5.1M | $102M (exactly $102,232,058) | Expansive Worlds |
| | Cube World | older | $19.99 | 9,885 42% | 297k | $5.9M (exactly $5,928,034) | Picroma |
| | Call of the Wild: The Angler™ | older | $29.99 | 6,122 63% | 184k | $5.5M (exactly $5,507,963) | Expansive Worlds |
| | Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek | $7.99 | 7,141 75% | 214k | $1.7M (exactly $1,711,698) | Rayll | |
| | Animalia Survival | · EA older | $19.99 | 2,823 64% | 85k | $1.7M (exactly $1,692,953) | High Brazil Studio |
 | Lunch Lady | older | $4.99 | 9,722 86% | 292k | $1.5M (exactly $1,455,383) | Manic Mice |
 | CastleMiner Z | older | $5.99 | 7,939 83% | 238k | $1.4M (exactly $1,426,638) | DigitalDNA Games |
 | DON'T SCREAM TOGETHER | $7.99 | 2,314 49% | 69k | $555k (exactly $554,666) | Digital Cybercherries | |
 | Takedown: Red Sabre | older | $4.99 | 3,550 41% | 107k | $531k (exactly $531,435) | Serellan LLC |
 | Supermarket Chaos | $4.99 | 3,266 92% | 98k | $489k (exactly $488,920) | BunnyHop | |
 | Ranger’s Path: National Park Simulator | · EA | $19.99 | 446 76% | 13k | $267k (exactly $267,466) | To-Go Games |
 | BULT: Hunting simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 869 87% | 26k | $260k (exactly $260,439) | Nordrise |
 | Virtual Hunter | $24.99 | 173 71% | 5.2k | $130k (exactly $129,698) | Korpi Games Oy | |
 | The Anomaly Project | $7.99 | 531 81% | 16k | $127k (exactly $127,281) | Kekdot | |
 | MustScream | $6.99 | 304 49% | 9.1k | $64k (exactly $63,749) | YonGame | |
 | Friendly Steps | $7.99 | 232 65% | 7.0k | $56k (exactly $55,610) | KORO.GAMES | |
 | Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator | · EA | $13.37 | 116 77% | 3.5k | $47k (exactly $46,528) | AVE Team |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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