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Should I ship a Fishing Automation game?
Automation + Fishing
Of 40 developers who shipped a Fishing Automation 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.. 46 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.4k, ×5.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $1.5k. Revenue is up 90% on the market; 46 games are announced against 29 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) |
| Top 25% | $42k (exactly $41,511) |
| Top 5% | $427k (exactly $426,765) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 40 |
| Released games | 58 |
| Announced | 46 |
| 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 90% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Automation
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Fishing
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Automation, Fishing; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Management, Building
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 9,376 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 6 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 46 games are announced against 29 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Automation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + Female ProtagonistStrong odds
- + Open World Survival CraftFair
- + HorrorFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + Class-BasedFair
- + MiningFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
- + DeckbuildingFair
Comparable games
Melvor Idle 2021 · $4.4M 
Go-Go Town! 2026 · $2.1M 
OxyRail 2026 · EA · $427k 
Tribe: Primitive Builder 2023 · $402k 
Ecosystem 2024 · $360k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Melvor Idle | older | $9.99 | 14,630 90% | 439k | $4.4M (exactly $4,384,611) | Games by Malcs |
| | Go-Go Town! | $27.99 | 2,476 93% | 74k | $2.1M (exactly $2,079,097) | Prideful Sloth | |
| | OxyRail | · EA | $14.99 | 949 80% | 28k | $427k (exactly $426,765) | OxygenTech Limited |
| | Tribe: Primitive Builder | older | $19.99 | 670 79% | 20k | $402k (exactly $401,799) | Space Boat Studios, Baked Games |
| | Ecosystem | $19.99 | 601 76% | 18k | $360k (exactly $360,420) | Tom Johnson | |
 | Farm to Table | · EA | $14.99 | 645 91% | 19k | $290k (exactly $290,056) | indieGiant |
 | Cornerpond | $2.99 | 2,567 97% | 77k | $230k (exactly $230,260) | foolsroom | |
 | Ritual of Raven | $14.99 | 325 88% | 9.8k | $146k (exactly $146,152) | Spellgarden Games | |
 | MR FARMBOY | $9.99 | 480 85% | 14k | $144k (exactly $143,856) | mrdboy | |
 | LurkBait Twitch Fishing | older | $7.00 | 548 87% | 16k | $115k (exactly $115,080) | BLAMCAM Interactive |
 | Loafing Town | $6.99 | 531 85% | 16k | $111k (exactly $111,351) | GoblinZz | |
 | Black Hole Fishing | $5.99 | 571 88% | 17k | $103k (exactly $102,609) | SDG Games | |
 | Idlequarium | $5.99 | 231 75% | 6.9k | $42k (exactly $41,511) | NutsX |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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