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Should I ship a Cooking Hunting game?
Hunting + Cooking
Only 18 developers shipped a Cooking 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, The Quinfall, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 37 more are announced, ×4.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.0k, ×6.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.2k; 1 in 20 cleared $3.6M, ×5762 the market median. Revenue is up 11255% on the market; 37 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) |
| Top 25% | $251k (exactly $250,960) |
| Top 5% | $3.6M (exactly $3,618,278) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 37 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 11255% on the market, supply 20% fewer 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.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting, Cooking; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Building, Crafting
- Price point
- $12.99 typical · top 25% priced $18.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with First-Person, 3D, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $18.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 56% positive over 15,860 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. 5 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 37 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.6 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 
The Quinfall 2026 · $3.6M 
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest 2025 · EA · $749k 
Alaska Gold Fever 2026 · $489k 
Slow living with Princess 2023 · $348k | 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 |
| | The Quinfall | $9.99 | 12,073 50% | 362k | $3.6M (exactly $3,618,278) | Vawraek Technology Inc. | |
| | Card Survival: Fantasy Forest | · EA | $21.99 | 1,135 76% | 34k | $749k (exactly $748,760) | WinterSpring Games |
| | Alaska Gold Fever | $16.99 | 959 79% | 29k | $489k (exactly $488,802) | Baked Games | |
| | Slow living with Princess | older | $19.99 | 580 87% | 17k | $348k (exactly $347,826) | KADOKAWA, TSUKURITE. |
 | Winter Survival | $18.99 | 595 62% | 18k | $339k (exactly $338,972) | DRAGO entertainment | |
 | Arctic Motel Simulator | $17.99 | 465 88% | 14k | $251k (exactly $250,960) | One Slice of Pizza Games | |
 | DYSPLACED | · EA | $24.99 | 296 87% | 8.9k | $222k (exactly $221,911) | 10tons Ltd |
 | Badiya: Desert Survival | · EA older | $19.99 | 284 50% | 8.5k | $170k (exactly $170,315) | Semaphore |
 | Chill Town | $9.99 | 200 68% | 6.0k | $60k (exactly $59,940) | Low-Hi Tech | |
 | Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0! | $8.99 | 119 68% | 3.6k | $32k (exactly $32,094) | LuluGames | |
 | Kalahari’s End | · EA | $14.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Owlfig Games |
 | Cold Breath | $12.99 | 9 22% | 270 | $3.5k (exactly $3,507) | celikgames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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