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Should I ship an Agriculture Shooter?
Shooter + Agriculture
Only 12 developers shipped an Agriculture Shooter 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, Zombie Graveyard Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×4.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $4.1k (exactly $4,133) |
| Top 5% | $362k (exactly $362,008) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 500% on the market, supply 30% fewer 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.
- Shooter
- 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
- Shooter, Agriculture
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 911 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Zompiercer 2020 · EA · $2.7M 
Zombie Graveyard Simulator 2025 · $362k 
Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） 2017 · $211k 
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story 2024 · $75k 
Crazy Islands 2025 · $31k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Zompiercer | · EA older | $19.99 | 4,562 88% | 137k | $2.7M (exactly $2,735,831) | DDDimanN |
| | Zombie Graveyard Simulator | $14.99 | 805 89% | 24k | $362k (exactly $362,008) | threeW | |
| | Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） | older | $19.99 | 352 90% | 11k | $211k (exactly $211,094) | STORIA, Narrator, SimonCreative |
| | Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story | older | $29.99 | 83 87% | 2.5k | $75k (exactly $74,675) | Digital Eclipse |
| | Crazy Islands | $13.99 | 73 68% | 2.2k | $31k (exactly $30,638) | Ge-Aivan | |
 | Noxious Weeds | · EA older | $4.99 | 53 77% | 1.6k | $7.9k (exactly $7,934) | Solar Eclipse Games |
 | Chickenauts | · EA | $5.99 | 23 60% | 690 | $4.1k (exactly $4,133) | SneakyBox, Kautki Cave |
 | WFD | older | $7.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) | HelloVR |
 | Freedom Farming - The American Way | older | $6.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | The Zoo |
 | A Package For Space | · EA | $24.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $750 (exactly $750) | Reading Time Studio |
 | Corny Johnny | · EA | $10.00 | 2 100% | 60 | $600 (exactly $600) | DozBroz Studio |
 | Mycocosm | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Evolver Dynamics | |
 | Farm Chicken | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | ChickenMan | |
 | Chick Game | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | 1CHAAAIN, BLOCKCHAAAIN | |
 | Cropacalypse | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | BecauseImMichael Games | |
 | The S.H.O.W. | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | SGS |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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