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Should I ship a Horse Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Horses
Only 8 developers shipped a Horse 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, The Ranch of Rivershine, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $13k against a market of $630. 8 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) |
|---|---|
| Median | $13k (exactly $13,041) |
| Top 25% | $872k (exactly $872,427) |
| Top 5% | $1.8M (exactly $1,844,385) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 up 1680% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Horses
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Agriculture
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 99,628 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.6k. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
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
Farming Simulator 22 2021 · $42M 
Farm Together 2018 · $11M 
Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition 2020 · $4.5M 
The Ranch of Rivershine 2025 · $1.8M 
STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life 2023 · $1.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Farming Simulator 22 | older | $19.99 | 69,477 93% | 2.1M | $42M (exactly $41,665,357) | GIANTS Software |
| | Farm Together | older | $19.99 | 17,647 93% | 529k | $11M (exactly $10,582,906) | Milkstone Studios |
| | Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition | older | $29.99 | 5,032 91% | 151k | $4.5M (exactly $4,527,290) | PikPok |
| | The Ranch of Rivershine | $29.99 | 2,050 94% | 62k | $1.8M (exactly $1,844,385) | Cozy Bee Games | |
| | STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life | older | $39.99 | 1,199 78% | 36k | $1.4M (exactly $1,438,440) | Marvelous Inc. |
 | Horsey Game | $9.99 | 2,911 97% | 87k | $872k (exactly $872,427) | Captain Games | |
 | Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch | older | $29.99 | 874 62% | 26k | $786k (exactly $786,338) | Aesir Interactive |
 | My Horse: Bonded Spirits | older | $19.99 | 130 38% | 3.9k | $78k (exactly $77,961) | Games Incubator |
 | Ancient Farm | $14.99 | 155 55% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $69,704) | A2 Softworks | |
 | Harvest Days: My Dream Farm | older | $14.99 | 153 65% | 4.6k | $69k (exactly $68,804) | Family Devs |
 | Animal Trainer Simulator | $14.99 | 29 37% | 870 | $13k (exactly $13,041) | Games Incubator | |
 | Horse Plinko | $4.99 | 47 89% | 1.4k | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) | Crawley, Womp | |
 | Harve | $2.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) | Lunar Studios | |
 | Farvival | · EA | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Shiranamitei |
 | food inc: Home of the Supply | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DreamDeveloper-Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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