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Should I ship a Farming Sim Hunting game?
Hunting + Farming Sim
Only 8 developers shipped a Farming Sim 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, Card Survival: Fantasy Forest, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×27 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $29k against a market of $630. 27 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) |
|---|---|
| Median | $29k (exactly $29,262) |
| Top 25% | $191k (exactly $190,849) |
| Top 5% | $749k (exactly $748,760) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $15.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 85% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, 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
- Farming Sim
- 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, Farming Sim
- Price point
- $15.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 50,560 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.2k. 6 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×27 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
Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm 2023 · $31M 
Call of the Wild: The Angler™ 2022 · $5.5M 
Russian Village Simulator 2023 · $800k 
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest 2025 · EA · $749k 
Slow living with Princess 2023 · $348k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm | older | $24.99 | 40,862 79% | 1.2M | $31M (exactly $30,634,241) | Toxic Dog |
| | Call of the Wild: The Angler™ | older | $29.99 | 6,122 63% | 184k | $5.5M (exactly $5,507,963) | Expansive Worlds |
| | Russian Village Simulator | older | $29.99 | 889 84% | 27k | $800k (exactly $799,833) | VD Games, PropilGames |
| | Card Survival: Fantasy Forest | · EA | $21.99 | 1,135 76% | 34k | $749k (exactly $748,760) | WinterSpring Games |
| | Slow living with Princess | older | $19.99 | 580 87% | 17k | $348k (exactly $347,826) | KADOKAWA, TSUKURITE. |
 | Cattle Country | $18.99 | 335 86% | 10k | $191k (exactly $190,849) | Castle Pixel, LLC. | |
 | Chill Town | $9.99 | 200 68% | 6.0k | $60k (exactly $59,940) | Low-Hi Tech | |
 | Sons Of The Dream Forest | · EA older | $4.99 | 318 9% | 9.5k | $48k (exactly $47,605) | SimulatorLife |
 | Russian Village Simulator 2 | $15.99 | 61 70% | 1.8k | $29k (exactly $29,262) | VD Games, PropilGames | |
 | Russian Village Simulator on Mars | $15.99 | 58 77% | 1.7k | $28k (exactly $27,823) | VD Games, PropilGames | |
 | Man Made | · EA | $19.99 | 8 37% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | Rule51 |
 | Ancient Savo | $6.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) | Erkka Lehmus | |
 | Cat Simulator: Meow | $0.99 | 65 60% | 2.0k | $1.9k (exactly $1,930) | Cat Studio | |
 | Isle Frontier | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Ragster |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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