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Should I ship a Platformer Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Platformer
Only 15 developers shipped a Platformer 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, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 11 developers shipped in the last year and 19 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) |
| Top 5% | $277k (exactly $276,767) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 19 |
| 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 down 55% on the market, supply 175% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture, Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, 2D Platformer, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Anime, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 672 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 19 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Agriculture with a different second tag, 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
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin 2020 · $4.5M 
Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse 2026 · $277k 
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story 2024 · $75k 
Supercow 2022 · $44k 
Town of Zoz 2026 · $30k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin | older | $29.99 | 5,004 92% | 150k | $4.5M (exactly $4,502,099) | Edelweiss |
| | Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse | $16.99 | 543 72% | 16k | $277k (exactly $276,767) | Frontside 180 | |
| | Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story | older | $29.99 | 83 87% | 2.5k | $75k (exactly $74,675) | Digital Eclipse |
| | Supercow | older | $7.99 | 183 97% | 5.5k | $44k (exactly $43,865) | Nevosoft |
| | Town of Zoz | $19.99 | 50 70% | 1.5k | $30k (exactly $29,985) | Studio Pixanoh | |
 | Horse Plinko | $4.99 | 47 89% | 1.4k | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) | Crawley, Womp | |
 | Kolkhoz: The Red Wedge | older | $5.99 | 22 59% | 660 | $4.0k (exactly $3,953) | Umigame Studios |
 | Fruits Vs Veggies | $6.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $2.7k (exactly $2,726) | Ishbull Studios | |
 | StarMoon Forest | · EA | $10.99 | 7 14% | 210 | $2.3k (exactly $2,308) | VC Power Studio |
 | Bhop up! | older | $4.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | ArcanaLord |
 | Spritz the Happy Onion | $5.00 | 4 100% | 120 | $600 (exactly $600) | Teddykaboom | |
 | Bunny's Bodacious Buffet Bonanza | $2.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Odd Bird Out Entertainment LLC | |
 | Idle Farm tycoon | · EA | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | JNA game |
 | Success In Progress | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Juris Games | |
 | Pop Pop Potato | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Thimbleberry Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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