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Should I ship a Magic Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Magic
Only 15 developers shipped a Magic 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 Quinfall, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 43 more are announced, ×7.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.1k, ×5.0 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $3.6M, ×5762 the market median. Revenue is up 14500% on the market; 43 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) |
| Top 25% | $122k (exactly $121,869) |
| Top 5% | $3.6M (exactly $3,618,278) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 43 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 14500% on the market, supply 35% 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
- Magic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 53% positive over 13,527 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 43 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Agriculture with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + IncrementalFair
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- + 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
Sun Haven 2023 · $17M 
The Quinfall 2026 · $3.6M 
Rune Factory 3 Special 2023 · $881k 
Kitaria Fables 2021 · $751k 
The Magical Mixture Mill 2024 · $330k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sun Haven | older | $24.99 | 22,069 79% | 662k | $17M (exactly $16,545,129) | Pixel Sprout Studios |
| | The Quinfall | $9.99 | 12,073 50% | 362k | $3.6M (exactly $3,618,278) | Vawraek Technology Inc. | |
| | Rune Factory 3 Special | older | $39.99 | 734 94% | 22k | $881k (exactly $880,580) | Marvelous Inc. |
| | Kitaria Fables | older | $19.99 | 1,253 73% | 38k | $751k (exactly $751,424) | Twin Hearts, Secret Level Studios |
| | The Magical Mixture Mill | older | $19.99 | 550 82% | 17k | $330k (exactly $329,835) | Glowlight |
 | Latex Dungeon | older | $9.99 | 969 82% | 29k | $290k (exactly $290,409) | GODNASK, ZXC |
 | Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse | $16.99 | 543 72% | 16k | $277k (exactly $276,767) | Frontside 180 | |
 | Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife | older | $19.99 | 391 88% | 12k | $234k (exactly $234,483) | inDirection Games |
 | Ritual of Raven | $14.99 | 325 88% | 9.8k | $146k (exactly $146,152) | Spellgarden Games | |
 | Seeds of Calamity | $14.99 | 271 78% | 8.1k | $122k (exactly $121,869) | Laborious Lark Studios | |
 | Sloppy Fields | · EA | $9.79 | 201 95% | 6.0k | $59k (exactly $59,034) | PixelPanzone |
 | Grimoire Groves | $19.99 | 47 82% | 1.4k | $28k (exactly $28,186) | Stardust | |
 | Cowgirl Maid Milk Cafe | $14.99 | 39 76% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,538) | Kuroneko Cafe | |
 | Fungal Colony Sim 2 | $7.99 | 13 61% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Skylor Beck | |
 | Fortune & Famine | $9.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Simeous Business, Mid Level Meeple | |
 | NecroFarm | $2.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | Podigi Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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