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Should I ship an Idler Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Idler
Of 72 developers who shipped an Idler Agriculture game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 67 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.5k, ×2.4 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $300. Revenue is up 90% on the market; 67 games are announced against 48 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) |
| Top 25% | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) |
| Top 5% | $240k (exactly $240,359) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 72 |
| Released games | 127 |
| Announced | 67 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 90% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, 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
- Idler
- effort 1 / 10 · high · number growth curves and a UI
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture, Idler; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Farming Sim, Simulation, Management
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Relaxing, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 15,514 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 8 in 10 of the 30 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 67 games are announced against 48 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Agriculture with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Time ManagementFair
- + 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
- + CapitalismPoor odds
Comparable games
Farm Together 2 2025 · $3.5M 
Farm Manager 2021 2021 · $1.4M 
Tiny Pasture 2025 · $1.3M 
Fish Game 2023 · $442k 
Plantera 2016 · $405k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Farm Together 2 | $25.99 | 4,456 93% | 134k | $3.5M (exactly $3,474,343) | Milkstone Studios | |
| | Farm Manager 2021 | older | $19.99 | 2,296 79% | 69k | $1.4M (exactly $1,376,911) | Cleversan Games |
| | Tiny Pasture | $5.99 | 7,055 92% | 212k | $1.3M (exactly $1,267,784) | CaveLiquid | |
| | 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) |
| | Plantera | older | $2.99 | 4,518 88% | 136k | $405k (exactly $405,265) | VaragtP |
 | Your Big, Cute Monster Farm | $7.99 | 1,097 78% | 33k | $263k (exactly $262,951) | KaiPlay Studio | |
 | 欺神弄鬼 | · EA | $9.99 | 802 91% | 24k | $240k (exactly $240,359) | 猫台班子工作室 Cat Caboodle |
 | MR FARMBOY | $9.99 | 480 85% | 14k | $144k (exactly $143,856) | mrdboy | |
 | Garden In! | older | $9.99 | 306 85% | 9.2k | $92k (exactly $91,708) | Dramatic Iceberg |
 | Sloppy Fields | · EA | $9.79 | 201 95% | 6.0k | $59k (exactly $59,034) | PixelPanzone |
 | Mushroom Nook | $4.99 | 392 98% | 12k | $59k (exactly $58,682) | HyperstasisGaming | |
 | Chop Chains | $5.99 | 257 77% | 7.7k | $46k (exactly $46,183) | Blasted Games | |
 | Desk Garden | $2.99 | 476 84% | 14k | $43k (exactly $42,697) | Siesta Studio | |
 | refarm | $3.99 | 298 87% | 8.9k | $36k (exactly $35,671) | otterhands |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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