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Should I ship an Archery Hunting game?
Hunting + Archery
Only 9 developers shipped an Archery Hunting 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, Way of the Hunter 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×6.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.2k, ×3.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $750; 1 in 20 cleared $1.6M, ×2564 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 32 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $750 (exactly $750) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) |
| Top 25% | $49k (exactly $49,151) |
| Top 5% | $1.6M (exactly $1,610,240) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting, Archery
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $34.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 98,634 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $750. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 32 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition 2020 · $144M 
Way of the Hunter 2 2026 · EA · $1.6M 
The Axis Unseen 2024 · $232k 
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown 2021 · $196k 
Eden Island 2024 · $104k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition | older | $49.99 | 95,804 87% | 2.9M | $144M (exactly $143,677,259) | Guerrilla |
| | Way of the Hunter 2 | · EA | $34.99 | 1,534 73% | 46k | $1.6M (exactly $1,610,240) | Nine Rocks Games |
| | The Axis Unseen | $24.99 | 309 75% | 9.3k | $232k (exactly $231,657) | Just Purkey Games | |
| | The Vale: Shadow of the Crown | older | $19.99 | 326 97% | 9.8k | $196k (exactly $195,502) | Falling Squirrel, Creative Bytes Studios |
| | Eden Island | older | $14.99 | 232 58% | 7.0k | $104k (exactly $104,330) | Moon Studio |
 | ScrewUp | older | $9.99 | 259 68% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | 199 Cents STUDIO |
 | DragonRoad | $19.98 | 82 91% | 2.5k | $49k (exactly $49,151) | XuJie | |
 | The Hermit Chronicles | older | $9.99 | 39 64% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | WinterTent Studio |
 | Hunting Unlimited 1 | older | $9.99 | 32 81% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | SCS Software |
 | 4 Kingdoms Supremacy | · EA older | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | PiggyNose Games |
 | South America Gold Rush | · EA | $9.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $2.7k (exactly $2,697) | Argo Games |
 | Bunny Hurling | $2.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) | Mounpeak Games | |
 | Phantom the Huntress | $6.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Hoffnung Haydn | |
 | Knights of the Apocalypse | $24.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $750 (exactly $750) | Sirius Morning Star | |
 | Quiver Quest | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Orca Virtual | |
 | Blood and Dust | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | PiggyNose Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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