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Should I ship a God Game Agriculture game?
Agriculture + God Game
Only 9 developers shipped a God 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, Terra Firma 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180, ×0.3 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $110k, ×191 the market median. Revenue is up 7410% on the market; 7 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $178 (exactly $178) |
|---|---|
| Median | $180 (exactly $180) |
| Top 25% | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) |
| Top 5% | $120k (exactly $119,940) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 7410% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- God Game
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture, God Game
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 3,930 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 7 games are announced against 6 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
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + FishingPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
Comparable games
Fish Game 2023 · $442k 
Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife 2024 · $234k 
Tiny Civilization 2023 · $127k 
Terra Firma 2 2025 · EA · $120k 
Goblin Camp 2026 · $71k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fish Game | older | $24.99 | 589 93% | 18k | $442k (exactly $441,573) | A Shell in the Pit Games, Creative Ink… (A Shell in the Pit Games, Creative Ink Games) |
| | Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife | older | $19.99 | 391 88% | 12k | $234k (exactly $234,483) | inDirection Games |
| | Tiny Civilization | older | $1.99 | 2,134 92% | 64k | $127k (exactly $127,400) | 喜人一个 |
| | Terra Firma 2 | · EA | $19.99 | 200 92% | 6.0k | $120k (exactly $119,940) | Working as Intended |
| | Goblin Camp | $19.99 | 118 76% | 3.5k | $71k (exactly $70,765) | Korppi Games Ltd | |
 | Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA- | older | $12.99 | 101 80% | 3.0k | $39k (exactly $39,360) | Andymente |
 | Tidal Tribe | older | $14.99 | 81 88% | 2.4k | $36k (exactly $36,426) | PowPit |
 | Story of Animal Sprite | older | $8.99 | 117 89% | 3.5k | $32k (exactly $31,555) | Lunaforge Studios |
 | Vilmonic | older | $14.99 | 69 69% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,029) | Bludgeonsoft |
 | Tuin | older | $4.99 | 130 76% | 3.9k | $19k (exactly $19,461) | Sokpop Collective |
 | Sunset Sprout | $9.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) | Fontty Games | |
 | Fungal Colony Sim 2 | $7.99 | 13 61% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Skylor Beck | |
 | Farmer Cats | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Toaster Chest | |
 | 咕噜咕噜海洋馆 | $2.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | 上海魔之雨网络科技有限公司 | |
 | Watch Grass Grow Simulator | $0.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | SplitMlik | |
 | Whomers Ate My Lawn! | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Dreaming Saints | |
 | Desert Vein | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Beijing Mayfly And Grain Technology Co.… (Beijing Mayfly And Grain Technology Co.,Ltd) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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