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Should I ship a Fishing Arcade game?
Fishing + Arcade
Of 51 developers who shipped a Fishing Arcade game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 64 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $150. Revenue is up 20% on the market; 64 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $716 (exactly $716) |
| Top 25% | $17k (exactly $17,312) |
| Top 5% | $274k (exactly $274,400) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 51 |
| Released games | 110 |
| Announced | 64 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 up 20% on the market, supply 90% 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.
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Fishing, Arcade; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Idler, Incremental, Economy
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, 2D, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 7,991 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 23 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 64 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Fishing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FarmingFair
- + AutomationFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
- + AgriculturePoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + Farming SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Call of the Wild: The Angler™ 2022 · $5.5M 
Cat Goes Fishing 2015 · $3.2M 
Scale the Depths 2026 · $564k 
Professional Fishing 2 2025 · EA · $327k 
Fishing Inc 2026 · $274k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Call of the Wild: The Angler™ | older | $29.99 | 6,122 63% | 184k | $5.5M (exactly $5,507,963) | Expansive Worlds |
| | Cat Goes Fishing | older | $6.99 | 15,431 94% | 463k | $3.2M (exactly $3,235,881) | Cat5Games |
| | Scale the Depths | $9.99 | 1,881 88% | 56k | $564k (exactly $563,736) | Glass Gecko Games | |
| | Professional Fishing 2 | · EA | $24.99 | 436 77% | 13k | $327k (exactly $326,869) | MasterCode |
| | Fishing Inc | $4.99 | 1,833 91% | 55k | $274k (exactly $274,400) | BigBonk Studio | |
 | Captain Whiskers: Incremental Seas | $5.99 | 886 85% | 27k | $159k (exactly $159,214) | Happy Universe Studios | |
 | Starlight Revolver | · EA | $12.99 | 404 54% | 12k | $157k (exactly $157,439) | Pahdo Labs |
 | Real VR Fishing | $19.99 | 184 73% | 5.5k | $110k (exactly $110,345) | Devs United Games, Inc | |
 | Far Fishing | $2.99 | 1,130 96% | 34k | $101k (exactly $101,361) | LostVolBytes | |
 | Creatura | older | $14.99 | 214 67% | 6.4k | $96k (exactly $96,236) | Koksny.com |
 | Sip Fisher | $4.99 | 637 92% | 19k | $95k (exactly $95,359) | Syphon Software | |
 | Fishing The Abyss | $6.99 | 421 95% | 13k | $88k (exactly $88,284) | umaaaaaa studio | |
 | Nautical Survival | $7.99 | 179 97% | 5.4k | $43k (exactly $42,906) | Idan Rooze |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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