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Should I ship a Card Game Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Card Game
Only 13 developers shipped a Card Game Agriculture 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, Tiny Pasture, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.5k, ×2.4 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $270; 1 in 20 cleared $1.2M, ×2019 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 15 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 25% | $235k (exactly $234,989) |
| Top 5% | $1.3M (exactly $1,267,784) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 60% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Agriculture
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Card Game
- effort 2 / 10 · high · rules engine and card data
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture, Card Game; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Farming Sim, Simulation, Creature Collector
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $21.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cute, Relaxing, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $21.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 10,496 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 4 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Agriculture with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Time ManagementFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + CatsFair
- + God GameLong shot
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + FishingPoor odds
Comparable games
Tiny Pasture 2025 · $1.3M 
Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator 2021 · $774k 
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest 2025 · EA · $749k 
Rana Card 2025 · $461k 
Mamon King 2025 · $235k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tiny Pasture | $5.99 | 7,055 92% | 212k | $1.3M (exactly $1,267,784) | CaveLiquid | |
| | Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator | older | $24.99 | 1,033 77% | 31k | $774k (exactly $774,440) | Broken Arms Games |
| | Card Survival: Fantasy Forest | · EA | $21.99 | 1,135 76% | 34k | $749k (exactly $748,760) | WinterSpring Games |
| | Rana Card | $12.99 | 1,183 89% | 35k | $461k (exactly $461,015) | VisionRana | |
| | Mamon King | $12.99 | 603 90% | 18k | $235k (exactly $234,989) | LiTMUS Co., Ltd. | |
 | Terracards | · EA older | $8.99 | 733 84% | 22k | $198k (exactly $197,690) | Pixel Purrfect |
 | Cropdeck | $12.99 | 430 92% | 13k | $168k (exactly $167,571) | Piotrek | |
 | Crop Rotation | older | $9.99 | 508 94% | 15k | $152k (exactly $152,248) | Sprouting Potato |
 | Deck of Harvest | · EA | $11.99 | 73 67% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $26,258) | GameFarmer, Pone Games |
 | De'Vine: World of Shadows | older | $7.99 | 25 72% | 750 | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) | Stapleton |
 | Fortune & Famine | $9.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Simeous Business, Mid Level Meeple | |
 | Relaxing Farm: Merge Tales | $4.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | LeeT Game | |
 | Oceanic Rails | · EA | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Extrinc Studios |
 | CardFarm | · EA | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | axel_hollow |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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