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Should I ship a Choices Matter Hunting game?
Hunting + Choices Matter
Only 18 developers shipped a Choices Matter 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, Survivalist: Invisible Strain, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300, ×0.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180. 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper, while revenue is down 100% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $43k (exactly $43,451) |
| Top 5% | $1.4M (exactly $1,443,836) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 100% on the market, supply 20% fewer 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.
- Hunting
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Choices Matter
- 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
- Hunting, Choices Matter; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Exploration, Character Customization, Action
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $18.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Relaxing, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $18.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 6,227 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 4 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AgriculturePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + MagicPoor odds
- + SimulationPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
Comparable games
Stranded: Alien Dawn 2023 · $10M 
Survivalist: Invisible Strain 2025 · $1.4M 
The Red Lantern 2021 · $700k 
Sensual Adventures - Treasure Island 2025 · EA · $273k 
The Lightkeeper 2025 · $259k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stranded: Alien Dawn | older | $34.99 | 9,715 84% | 291k | $10M (exactly $10,197,836) | Haemimont Games |
| | Survivalist: Invisible Strain | $11.99 | 4,014 87% | 120k | $1.4M (exactly $1,443,836) | Bob | |
| | The Red Lantern | older | $24.99 | 934 83% | 28k | $700k (exactly $700,220) | Timberline Studio |
| | Sensual Adventures - Treasure Island | · EA | $29.99 | 303 81% | 9.1k | $273k (exactly $272,609) | Puppetmaster3dx |
| | The Lightkeeper | $7.99 | 1,081 81% | 32k | $259k (exactly $259,116) | Darkphobia Games | |
 | Cattle Country | $18.99 | 335 86% | 10k | $191k (exactly $190,849) | Castle Pixel, LLC. | |
 | Slavania | older | $15.99 | 202 61% | 6.1k | $97k (exactly $96,899) | FrostLeaf Games LLC |
 | Thousand Threads | older | $19.99 | 92 84% | 2.8k | $55k (exactly $55,172) | Seamount |
 | FREE DUROV | $3.99 | 363 90% | 11k | $43k (exactly $43,451) | RASKUMAR TEAM | |
 | Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0! | $8.99 | 119 68% | 3.6k | $32k (exactly $32,094) | LuluGames | |
 | Spearfishing Simulator | $7.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $959 (exactly $959) | Riv3r | |
 | Disharmony | $4.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | 7Eagle | |
 | Pro Tukey Hunting | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | PSR Outdoors | |
 | Monster Hunting Party | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Contradicted Canine |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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