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Should I ship an Agriculture Automation game?
Automation + Agriculture
Of 53 developers who shipped an Agriculture Automation game 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, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.2k, ×3.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $290k, ×462 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 88 games are announced against 40 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) |
| Top 25% | $9.0k (exactly $8,991) |
| Top 5% | $290k (exactly $290,056) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 53 |
| Released games | 94 |
| Announced | 88 |
| 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 55% on the market, supply 210% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Automation
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Agriculture
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Automation, Agriculture; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Farming Sim, Resource Management
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, Pixel Graphics, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 5,823 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 6 in 10 of the 14 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 88 games are announced against 40 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Automation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + Female ProtagonistStrong odds
- + Open World Survival CraftFair
- + HorrorFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + Class-BasedFair
- + MiningFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + FishingFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
Comparable games
Captain of Industry 2022 · EA · $12M 
Stationeers 2017 · EA · $9.0M 
Automation Empire 2019 · $2.3M 
Autonauts 2019 · $2.2M 
Havendock 2025 · $902k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Captain of Industry | · EA older | $34.99 | 11,027 90% | 331k | $12M (exactly $11,575,042) | MaFi Games |
| | Stationeers | · EA older | $34.99 | 8,597 88% | 258k | $9.0M (exactly $9,024,271) | RocketWerkz |
| | Automation Empire | older | $29.99 | 2,584 65% | 78k | $2.3M (exactly $2,324,825) | DOG HOGGLER |
| | Autonauts | older | $19.99 | 3,596 90% | 108k | $2.2M (exactly $2,156,521) | Denki |
| | Havendock | $19.99 | 1,504 81% | 45k | $902k (exactly $901,949) | YYZ Studio | |
 | Blossom: The Seed of Life | $16.99 | 1,011 88% | 30k | $515k (exactly $515,307) | Pebbledust Games | |
 | Plantera | older | $2.99 | 4,518 88% | 136k | $405k (exactly $405,265) | VaragtP |
 | The Signal State | older | $19.99 | 649 86% | 19k | $389k (exactly $389,205) | Reckoner Industries |
 | The Magical Mixture Mill | older | $19.99 | 550 82% | 17k | $330k (exactly $329,835) | Glowlight |
 | Farm to Table | · EA | $14.99 | 645 91% | 19k | $290k (exactly $290,056) | indieGiant |
 | Your Big, Cute Monster Farm | $7.99 | 1,097 78% | 33k | $263k (exactly $262,951) | KaiPlay Studio | |
 | Ritual of Raven | $14.99 | 325 88% | 9.8k | $146k (exactly $146,152) | Spellgarden Games | |
 | MR FARMBOY | $9.99 | 480 85% | 14k | $144k (exactly $143,856) | mrdboy | |
 | Ranch Farm and Store Simulator | $12.99 | 252 84% | 7.6k | $98k (exactly $98,204) | Bewolba Studios | |
 | ACRES | $14.99 | 210 80% | 6.3k | $94k (exactly $94,437) | Jimi Games | |
 | Sloppy Fields | · EA | $9.79 | 201 95% | 6.0k | $59k (exactly $59,034) | PixelPanzone |
 | Farm Factory Simulator | · EA | $12.99 | 98 93% | 2.9k | $38k (exactly $38,191) | Bewolba Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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