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Should I ship a Female-Led Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Female Protagonist
Only 10 developers shipped a Female-Led 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, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $24k against a market of $630. 28 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
|---|---|
| Median | $24k (exactly $24,100) |
| Top 25% | $39k (exactly $39,124) |
| Top 5% | $277k (exactly $276,767) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 35% fewer 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
- Female Protagonist
- 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
- $11.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,615 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Agriculture with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + FishingPoor odds
Comparable games
My Time at Portia 2019 · $31M 
Farm Together 2018 · $11M 
STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town 2020 · $6.3M 
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin 2020 · $4.5M 
HARVESTELLA 2022 · $3.7M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | My Time at Portia | older | $29.99 | 34,844 91% | 1.0M | $31M (exactly $31,349,147) | Pathea Games |
| | Farm Together | older | $19.99 | 17,647 93% | 529k | $11M (exactly $10,582,906) | Milkstone Studios |
| | STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town | older | $39.99 | 5,268 93% | 158k | $6.3M (exactly $6,320,020) | Marvelous Inc. |
| | Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin | older | $29.99 | 5,004 92% | 150k | $4.5M (exactly $4,502,099) | Edelweiss |
| | HARVESTELLA | older | $59.99 | 2,071 77% | 62k | $3.7M (exactly $3,727,179) | Square Enix |
 | No Place Like Home | older | $19.99 | 3,784 78% | 114k | $2.3M (exactly $2,269,265) | Chicken Launcher |
 | Summer in Mara | older | $19.99 | 1,464 75% | 44k | $878k (exactly $877,961) | Chibig |
 | The Stillness of the Wind | older | $12.99 | 1,360 77% | 41k | $530k (exactly $529,992) | Memory of God, Lambic Studios |
 | Latex Dungeon | older | $9.99 | 969 82% | 29k | $290k (exactly $290,409) | GODNASK, ZXC |
 | Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse | $16.99 | 543 72% | 16k | $277k (exactly $276,767) | Frontside 180 | |
 | 欺神弄鬼 | · EA | $9.99 | 802 91% | 24k | $240k (exactly $240,359) | 猫台班子工作室 Cat Caboodle |
 | Garden Trills | $14.99 | 87 96% | 2.6k | $39k (exactly $39,124) | Yukim | |
 | Dream Life in the Country Side | $14.99 | 87 83% | 2.6k | $39k (exactly $39,124) | Moonlit Cafe | |
 | Touhou Farming ~ Minoriko's Homestead Harvest | · EA | $11.99 | 67 95% | 2.0k | $24k (exactly $24,100) | Studio Hexeye |
 | Tiny Slime Farm | $5.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) | Chocolate Soft | |
 | Sprite's Honor! | $9.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Holographicquad | |
 | Harvest Yuuka | $24.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $750 (exactly $750) | ちゆうどう (Chiyuudou) | |
 | Book of Myko | · EA | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Charles V Fisher |
 | Dairy Farm | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | Fresh Milk Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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