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Should I ship an Interactive Fiction Farming Sim?
Farming Sim + Interactive Fiction
Only 7 developers shipped an Interactive Fiction 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, My Party Needs An Alchemist, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $600 against a market of $480. 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $538 (exactly $538) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $12,163) |
| Top 5% | $24k (exactly $23,988) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 10% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, 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
- Interactive Fiction
- effort 1 / 10 · high · prose plus a state machine
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Farming Sim, Interactive Fiction
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 1,832 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $540. 15 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Farming Sim with a different second tag, 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
- + HorsesPoor odds
Comparable games
Adios 2021 · $565k 
My Party Needs An Alchemist 2025 · $24k 
古代风流传 2023 · $22k 
Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook 2014 · $15k 
Magical Greenhouse 2025 · $12k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Adios | older | $17.99 | 1,047 94% | 31k | $565k (exactly $565,066) | Mischief |
| | My Party Needs An Alchemist | $19.99 | 40 87% | 1.2k | $24k (exactly $23,988) | Gilded Rune Games | |
| | 古代风流传 | older | $1.45 | 499 72% | 15k | $22k (exactly $21,706) | Turtle game |
| | Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook | older | $9.99 | 50 64% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,985) | Winter Wolves |
| | Magical Greenhouse | $6.99 | 58 93% | 1.7k | $12k (exactly $12,163) | Mgtt Studio | |
 | The Lost Legends of Redwall: Feasts & Friends | older | $4.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | Soma Games |
 | 山间有点田-Sweet In the Mountains | older | $11.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $3.6k (exactly $3,597) | 橙光游戏 |
 | CosmoOdyssey 2: Comeback to origin | older | $1.99 | 59 94% | 1.8k | $3.5k (exactly $3,522) | Brenntkopf Development |
 | Bunny Eureka | · EA older | $3.99 | 29 96% | 870 | $3.5k (exactly $3,471) | Li Min |
 | Space to Grow | older | $6.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Metasepia Games |
 | Simulation | $3.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | eCho Software | |
 | Animal Cafe | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | LayDown Games | |
 | IDLE PET UFO | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | 電脳鈴木組 | |
 | Beyond the Soil: Farming & Tales | $12.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Mavi Game Lab | |
 | 巅峰之路 | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | 橙光游戏 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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