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Should I ship a Visual Novel Agriculture game?
Agriculture + Visual Novel
Only 8 developers shipped a Visual Novel 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, Town of Zoz, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $29k, ×48 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 12 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $600 (exactly $600) |
| Top 25% | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) |
| Top 5% | $30k (exactly $29,985) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 65% more 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
- Visual Novel
- effort 2 / 10 · high · script, choices and static art
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Agriculture, Visual Novel
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 3,735 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 12 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 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
Summer in Mara 2020 · $878k 
Latex Dungeon 2022 · $290k 
Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） 2017 · $211k 
Wild Season 2015 · $91k 
Twins of the Pasture 2017 · $67k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Summer in Mara | older | $19.99 | 1,464 75% | 44k | $878k (exactly $877,961) | Chibig |
| | Latex Dungeon | older | $9.99 | 969 82% | 29k | $290k (exactly $290,409) | GODNASK, ZXC |
| | Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） | older | $19.99 | 352 90% | 11k | $211k (exactly $211,094) | STORIA, Narrator, SimonCreative |
| | Wild Season | older | $16.99 | 179 24% | 5.4k | $91k (exactly $91,236) | Quickfire Games |
| | Twins of the Pasture | older | $7.99 | 278 74% | 8.3k | $67k (exactly $66,637) | Dieselmine |
 | Deiland: Pocket Planet | older | $14.99 | 132 68% | 4.0k | $59k (exactly $59,360) | Chibig |
 | Ankora: Lost Days | older | $14.99 | 131 76% | 3.9k | $59k (exactly $58,911) | Chibig |
 | My Slow Life with the Princess Knight and Her Devoted Handmaiden | older | $14.99 | 77 92% | 2.3k | $35k (exactly $34,627) | Waffle |
 | Town of Zoz | $19.99 | 50 70% | 1.5k | $30k (exactly $29,985) | Studio Pixanoh | |
 | Garage Sale | older | $6.99 | 103 98% | 3.1k | $22k (exactly $21,599) | Bug Burrow |
 | Baskin All-In: The Family | · EA | $8.99 | 26 65% | 780 | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) | TheSugarRay |
 | 双雄风流传（Romantic Emperor） | $2.18 | 53 86% | 1.6k | $3.5k (exactly $3,466) | Turtle game | |
 | The Shepherd: Black Sheep | $19.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Bandaloop Games GmbH | |
 | Get Out Of The Woods | · EA | $8.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $539 (exactly $539) | NarwhalStudio |
 | Gnomestead | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | GORT Industries | |
 | The Ultra Realistic Accurate Farmer Simulator | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | CGCFSS | |
 | MILKY COWGIRLSVERSE | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SUCCUBUS ZONE |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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