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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Procedural Generation
Only 13 developers shipped a Procedural Generation 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, Horsey Game, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 60 more are announced, ×7.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.2k, ×6.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.7k; 1 in 20 cleared $870k, ×1389 the market median. Revenue is up 135% on the market; 60 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.2k (exactly $4,198) |
| Top 25% | $26k (exactly $26,258) |
| Top 5% | $872k (exactly $872,427) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 54 |
| Announced | 60 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 135% on the market, supply 60% 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
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture, Procedural Generation; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Management, Resource Management
- Price point
- $11.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $11.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 3,317 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.7k. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 60 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.5 per shipper.
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
Fabledom 2024 · $4.3M 
One Hour One Life 2018 · $1.8M 
Urbek City Builder 2022 · $1.0M 
Horsey Game 2026 · $872k 
Global Farmer 2025 · $80k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fabledom | older | $20.99 | 6,772 85% | 203k | $4.3M (exactly $4,264,328) | Grenaa Games |
| | One Hour One Life | older | $14.99 | 3,988 79% | 120k | $1.8M (exactly $1,793,404) | Jason Rohrer |
| | Urbek City Builder | older | $18.99 | 1,830 89% | 55k | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,551) | Fridus |
| | Horsey Game | $9.99 | 2,911 97% | 87k | $872k (exactly $872,427) | Captain Games | |
| | Global Farmer | $19.99 | 133 45% | 4.0k | $80k (exactly $79,760) | Thera Bytes GmbH | |
 | Goblin Camp | $19.99 | 118 76% | 3.5k | $71k (exactly $70,765) | Korppi Games Ltd | |
 | Desktop Farm | older | $2.99 | 612 74% | 18k | $55k (exactly $54,896) | 3dm_live_wallpapers |
 | Industrial Petting | · EA older | $19.99 | 82 90% | 2.5k | $49k (exactly $49,175) | Another Yeti |
 | Vilmonic | older | $14.99 | 69 69% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,029) | Bludgeonsoft |
 | Deck of Harvest | · EA | $11.99 | 73 67% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $26,258) | GameFarmer, Pone Games |
 | Exile | $19.99 | 13 61% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | JD7 Games | |
 | Sigma World Online | $4.99 | 37 70% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Crematorium of Time | |
 | Gardener: Master of Trees and Flowers | · EA | $19.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $4.2k (exactly $4,198) | Koksny.com |
 | Fungal Colony Sim 2 | $7.99 | 13 61% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Skylor Beck | |
 | Apoikia | · EA | $24.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $3.0k (exactly $2,999) | Charlie |
 | Planeturem | $6.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | jamiebrn |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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