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Should I ship a Loot Farming Sim?
Loot + Farming Sim
Only 12 developers shipped a Loot 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, Eggstreme Farming, 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, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.5k, ×2.4 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $35k, ×56 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 19 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,485) |
| Top 25% | $7.2k (exactly $7,195) |
| Top 5% | $35k (exactly $35,439) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 40% 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.
- Loot
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Farming Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Loot, Farming Sim
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 345 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Loot with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Artificial IntelligenceStrong odds
- + Local Co-OpStrong odds
- + SteampunkStrong odds
- + CapitalismFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + JRPGFair
- + EconomyFair
- + IdlerFair
- + CatsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Creature CollectorFair
- + CollectathonFair
Comparable games
The Lost Village 2024 · $987k 
Kitaria Fables 2021 · $751k 
Backwoods Town 2023 · EA · $52k 
Eggstreme Farming 2026 · $35k 
Tile Miner 2021 · $26k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Lost Village | older | $11.99 | 2,743 70% | 82k | $987k (exactly $986,657) | FunYoo Games |
| | Kitaria Fables | older | $19.99 | 1,253 73% | 38k | $751k (exactly $751,424) | Twin Hearts, Secret Level Studios |
| | Backwoods Town | · EA older | $8.99 | 192 93% | 5.8k | $52k (exactly $51,782) | Andrii Prots |
| | Eggstreme Farming | $6.99 | 169 73% | 5.1k | $35k (exactly $35,439) | Sagitta Studios | |
| | Tile Miner | older | $14.99 | 57 61% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | nalothchris, swanee734 |
 | Grove Fisher | $4.99 | 98 67% | 2.9k | $15k (exactly $14,671) | EVIL CORP GAMES | |
 | 仙道孤旅 | · EA older | $8.99 | 53 84% | 1.6k | $14k (exactly $14,294) | 仙道 |
 | 降妖神兵 | older | $2.99 | 116 75% | 3.5k | $10k (exactly $10,405) | 易远游戏 |
 | Island Idle RPG | older | $2.99 | 86 67% | 2.6k | $7.7k (exactly $7,714) | Overaction Game Studio |
 | Tutien Path | $14.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $7.2k (exactly $7,195) | Truong Thanh Triet | |
 | CELESTIAL: FIRE & FORGE | $4.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | ERA Soft Studio | |
 | 帝缚山海 | · EA | $4.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | 赤月抉择 |
 | Onyx | · EA | $9.90 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,485) | Dark Matter |
 | CHILL FISHING | $0.99 | 30 90% | 900 | $891 (exactly $891) | Sleepy Giant Creations | |
 | Enclaved | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Digital Platforms Co. | |
 | Berry Picker | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Azeree | |
 | Kill Spewy | $1.00 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Sun Monster FxxL |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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