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Should I ship a Hidden Object Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Hidden Object
Only 9 developers shipped a Hidden Object 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, Russian Village Simulator on Mars, 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, ×7.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $900 against a market of $630. 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $896 (exactly $896) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) |
| Top 5% | $28k (exactly $27,823) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $1.99 |
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 70% fewer 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
- Hidden Object
- effort 2 / 10 · high · static scenes with click targets
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture, Hidden Object
- Price point
- $1.99 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 $15.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 2,476 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Agriculture with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 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
Russian Village Simulator 2023 · $800k 
Lawnmower Game 2017 · $66k 
24 Solar Terms 2023 · $34k 
Russian Village Simulator on Mars 2025 · $28k 
100 hidden birds 2 2021 · $14k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Russian Village Simulator | older | $29.99 | 889 84% | 27k | $800k (exactly $799,833) | VD Games, PropilGames |
| | Lawnmower Game | older | $6.99 | 316 80% | 9.5k | $66k (exactly $66,265) | Tero Lunkka, Mikko Seppälä |
| | 24 Solar Terms | older | $6.99 | 162 88% | 4.9k | $34k (exactly $33,971) | FreeMenFreeTime |
| | Russian Village Simulator on Mars | $15.99 | 58 77% | 1.7k | $28k (exactly $27,823) | VD Games, PropilGames | |
| | 100 hidden birds 2 | older | $0.99 | 484 93% | 15k | $14k (exactly $14,375) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Аlexandr Telminov |
 | 100 hidden rams | older | $0.99 | 343 97% | 10k | $10k (exactly $10,187) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh, Аlexandr Telminov |
 | Instant Farmer - Logic Puzzle | older | $1.99 | 160 91% | 4.8k | $9.6k (exactly $9,552) | Mens Sana Interactive |
 | Miguelshroom: First day at school | older | $4.99 | 39 82% | 1.2k | $5.8k (exactly $5,838) | Bad Kid Games |
 | Barn Finders VR | older | $15.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $4.8k (exactly $4,797) | Punch Punk Games |
 | Bubble Chicken Farm | · EA older | $8.99 | 15 60% | 450 | $4.0k (exactly $4,046) | Red Sea Game Studio |
 | Eastern Block Summer | $7.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Space Lemon Games, Francis Bean | |
 | South America Gold Rush | · EA | $9.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Argo Games |
 | Pickle Simulator | $1.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $1.2k (exactly $1,194) | Belfrost Studios | |
 | Sunny Reef | $1.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $896 (exactly $896) | GiBar | |
 | Hentai Sally | $0.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $416 (exactly $416) | Cyber Keks | |
 | YieldTrillions | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | HongZhenJin | |
 | Counting Spices | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Twisted Trails Studio | |
 | My Happy Village in the Kingdom | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ima shouganai |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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