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Should I ship a Dog Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Dogs
Only 11 developers shipped a Dog 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, Rancher: A new life, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. Revenue is down 100% on the market, with 10 games announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $33k (exactly $33,267) |
| Top 5% | $159k (exactly $158,920) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Dogs
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 76% positive over 718 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Agriculture with a different setting or mood, 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
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin 2020 · $4.5M 
No Place Like Home 2022 · $2.3M 
STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town 2021 · $1.6M 
STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life 2023 · $1.4M 
The Good Life 2021 · $178k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin | older | $29.99 | 5,004 92% | 150k | $4.5M (exactly $4,502,099) | Edelweiss |
| | No Place Like Home | older | $19.99 | 3,784 78% | 114k | $2.3M (exactly $2,269,265) | Chicken Launcher |
| | STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town | older | $39.99 | 1,357 82% | 41k | $1.6M (exactly $1,627,993) | Marvelous Inc. |
| | STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life | older | $39.99 | 1,199 78% | 36k | $1.4M (exactly $1,438,440) | Marvelous Inc. |
| | The Good Life | older | $29.99 | 198 74% | 5.9k | $178k (exactly $178,141) | White Owls Inc. |
 | Rancher: A new life | · EA | $19.99 | 265 64% | 8.0k | $159k (exactly $158,920) | Sim Farm S.A. |
 | Sheepherds! | $14.99 | 307 98% | 9.2k | $138k (exactly $138,058) | Ultimo Disco | |
 | Sunrise's Order | older | $17.99 | 64 95% | 1.9k | $35k (exactly $34,541) | Misstic Studio |
 | Ice World | $9.99 | 111 57% | 3.3k | $33k (exactly $33,267) | CoolRabbit Games | |
 | Animal Trainer Simulator | $14.99 | 29 37% | 870 | $13k (exactly $13,041) | Games Incubator | |
 | The Shepherd: Black Sheep | $19.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Bandaloop Games GmbH | |
 | Desktop Pasture | $3.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | XDesktopSoft | |
 | Sheep Dog | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | JAM JAM Laboratory | |
 | -Ham Cafe- Ohamu Shokudo Ki | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gomashio | |
 | Bush Dog | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Redcollarwolf | |
 | Leaf Blower Something | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Screw Propellers Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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