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Should I ship a Farming Inventory Management game?
Inventory Management + Farming
Only 13 developers shipped a Farming Inventory Management 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, Old Market Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.8k, ×7.9 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $960; 1 in 20 cleared $1.2M, ×2734 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 19 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $959 (exactly $959) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.8k (exactly $3,767) |
| Top 25% | $92k (exactly $92,308) |
| Top 5% | $1.3M (exactly $1,298,600) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 80% on the market, supply 60% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Inventory Management
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Farming
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Inventory Management
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 5,906 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $960. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Inventory Management with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + LGBTQ+Fair
- + Roguelike DeckbuilderFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + WargameFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + DeckbuildingFair
- + LogicFair
- + Card GameFair
- + Trading Card GameFair
- + Puzzle PlatformerFair
- + God GameFair
Comparable games
Farm Manager 2018 2018 · $1.5M 
Farm Manager 2021 2021 · $1.4M 
Old Market Simulator 2024 · $1.3M 
Farming & Supermarket Simulator 2025 · $300k 
Farm Expert 2017 2016 · $277k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Farm Manager 2018 | older | $19.99 | 2,524 70% | 76k | $1.5M (exactly $1,513,643) | Cleversan Games |
| | Farm Manager 2021 | older | $19.99 | 2,296 79% | 69k | $1.4M (exactly $1,376,911) | Cleversan Games |
| | Old Market Simulator | $9.99 | 4,333 87% | 130k | $1.3M (exactly $1,298,600) | Alcedo Games | |
| | Farming & Supermarket Simulator | $11.99 | 835 79% | 25k | $300k (exactly $300,350) | EY08 Games | |
| | Farm Expert 2017 | older | $19.99 | 462 38% | 14k | $277k (exactly $277,061) | Silden |
 | Crop Rotation | older | $9.99 | 508 94% | 15k | $152k (exactly $152,248) | Sprouting Potato |
 | Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator | $17.99 | 193 89% | 5.8k | $104k (exactly $104,162) | One Slice of Pizza Games | |
 | Rocky Idle | $9.99 | 308 83% | 9.2k | $92k (exactly $92,308) | Rocky Games Studio | |
 | Before The Green Moon | older | $11.99 | 138 94% | 4.1k | $50k (exactly $49,639) | Turnfollow |
 | The Headlands | · EA | $10.99 | 107 97% | 3.2k | $35k (exactly $35,278) | TessaraOxygen |
 | Touhou Farming ~ Minoriko's Homestead Harvest | · EA | $11.99 | 67 95% | 2.0k | $24k (exactly $24,100) | Studio Hexeye |
 | Bit-Cremental: Fishistry | $2.99 | 42 90% | 1.3k | $3.8k (exactly $3,767) | Inner Realm Studios | |
 | By My Side | $9.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | OverLKD Studio | |
 | A Tiny Garden | $5.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Tiny Racoon Studio | |
 | Fisherman's Palace | · EA | $15.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $959 (exactly $959) | SuperuserGames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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