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Should I ship a Horse Farming Sim?
Farming Sim + Horses
Only 14 developers shipped a Horse Farming Sim 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 Ranch of Rivershine, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $70k, ×111 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $14k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.8M, ×2937 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $13k (exactly $13,486) |
|---|---|
| Median | $70k (exactly $69,704) |
| Top 25% | $254k (exactly $254,273) |
| Top 5% | $1.8M (exactly $1,844,385) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $19.99 |
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 55% on the market, supply 45% 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.
- Farming Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Horses
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Farming Sim
- Price point
- $19.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 4,423 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $14k. 5 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Farming Sim with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + DogsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + IdlerFair
- + TacticalFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + God GameLong shot
- + Visual NovelLong shot
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + JRPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
Comparable games
Farming Simulator 22 2021 · $42M 
Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm 2023 · $31M 
Farm Together 2018 · $11M 
The Ranch of Rivershine 2025 · $1.8M 
STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life 2023 · $1.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Farming Simulator 22 | older | $19.99 | 69,477 93% | 2.1M | $42M (exactly $41,665,357) | GIANTS Software |
| | Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm | older | $24.99 | 40,862 79% | 1.2M | $31M (exactly $30,634,241) | Toxic Dog |
| | Farm Together | older | $19.99 | 17,647 93% | 529k | $11M (exactly $10,582,906) | Milkstone Studios |
| | The Ranch of Rivershine | $29.99 | 2,050 94% | 62k | $1.8M (exactly $1,844,385) | Cozy Bee Games | |
| | STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life | older | $39.99 | 1,199 78% | 36k | $1.4M (exactly $1,438,440) | Marvelous Inc. |
 | Cattails | Become a Cat! | older | $14.99 | 2,315 95% | 69k | $1.0M (exactly $1,041,056) | Falcon Development |
 | Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos | older | $49.99 | 370 73% | 11k | $555k (exactly $554,889) | Appci Inc., Natsume Inc. |
 | Unbridled: That Horse Game | · EA | $24.99 | 487 85% | 15k | $365k (exactly $365,104) | Mind Evotion Games |
 | Viking Frontiers | $19.99 | 537 51% | 16k | $322k (exactly $322,039) | BLUM Entertainment | |
 | Wild Indigo Ranch | $19.99 | 424 68% | 13k | $254k (exactly $254,273) | Funday Games | |
 | Gaucho and the Grassland | $19.99 | 410 96% | 12k | $246k (exactly $245,877) | Epopeia Games | |
 | Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator | $17.99 | 193 89% | 5.8k | $104k (exactly $104,162) | One Slice of Pizza Games | |
 | Ancient Farm | $14.99 | 155 55% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $69,704) | A2 Softworks | |
 | Tobiano | · EA | $24.99 | 81 79% | 2.4k | $61k (exactly $60,726) | Ida Meyer |
 | Rival Stars Horse Racing: VR Edition | $19.99 | 41 85% | 1.2k | $25k (exactly $24,588) | PikPok | |
 | Horse Farm Simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 45 60% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $13,486) | Glow Egg Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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