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Should I ship an Agriculture Hunting game?
Hunting + Agriculture
Only 14 developers shipped an Agriculture Hunting 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 Quinfall, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $15k, ×24 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $2.7k; 1 in 20 cleared $3.6M, ×5762 the market median. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) |
|---|---|
| Median | $15k (exactly $14,985) |
| Top 25% | $92k (exactly $91,730) |
| Top 5% | $3.6M (exactly $3,618,278) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 20 |
| 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 down 10% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hunting
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Agriculture
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting, Agriculture; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Crafting, Building, RPG
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $22.99 or above
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $22.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 54% positive over 13,983 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.7k. 6 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + MagicPoor odds
- + SimulationPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
Comparable games
DYSMANTLE 2021 · $6.6M 
The Quinfall 2026 · $3.6M 
Russian Village Simulator 2023 · $800k 
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest 2025 · EA · $749k 
Slow living with Princess 2023 · $348k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DYSMANTLE | older | $19.99 | 11,022 91% | 331k | $6.6M (exactly $6,609,893) | 10tons Ltd |
| | The Quinfall | $9.99 | 12,073 50% | 362k | $3.6M (exactly $3,618,278) | Vawraek Technology Inc. | |
| | Russian Village Simulator | older | $29.99 | 889 84% | 27k | $800k (exactly $799,833) | VD Games, PropilGames |
| | Card Survival: Fantasy Forest | · EA | $21.99 | 1,135 76% | 34k | $749k (exactly $748,760) | WinterSpring Games |
| | Slow living with Princess | older | $19.99 | 580 87% | 17k | $348k (exactly $347,826) | KADOKAWA, TSUKURITE. |
 | Cattle Country | $18.99 | 335 86% | 10k | $191k (exactly $190,849) | Castle Pixel, LLC. | |
 | Eden Island | older | $14.99 | 232 58% | 7.0k | $104k (exactly $104,330) | Moon Studio |
 | Ecopunk | · EA | $22.99 | 133 81% | 4.0k | $92k (exactly $91,730) | Zerone Games |
 | Ice World | $9.99 | 111 57% | 3.3k | $33k (exactly $33,267) | CoolRabbit Games | |
 | Wilderness | older | $14.99 | 66 27% | 2.0k | $30k (exactly $29,680) | Horizon Studios |
 | Russian Village Simulator 2 | $15.99 | 61 70% | 1.8k | $29k (exactly $29,262) | VD Games, PropilGames | |
 | Russian Village Simulator on Mars | $15.99 | 58 77% | 1.7k | $28k (exactly $27,823) | VD Games, PropilGames | |
 | Ice Age | · EA | $9.99 | 50 56% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,985) | Sabertooth Studio |
 | Man Made | · EA | $19.99 | 8 37% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | Rule51 |
 | Crazy Caveman | · EA | $4.99 | 19 52% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Caveman Game |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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