Games › Sports › Sports + Farming Sim
Should I ship a Farming Sim Sports game?
Sports + Farming Sim
Only 9 developers shipped a Farming Sim Sports 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, 我的钓鱼世界, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×6.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.9k against a market of $630. 13 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) |
| Top 25% | $25k (exactly $24,588) |
| Top 5% | $91k (exactly $91,289) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 70% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Sports
- 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
- Sports, Farming Sim
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $8.99.
The top 10 games average 66% positive over 8,488 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Sports with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dynamic NarrationStrong odds
- + CraftingFair
- + Strategy RPGFair
- + SandboxFair
- + Split ScreenFair
- + Dating SimFair
- + Visual NovelFair
- + LGBTQ+Fair
- + FMVFair
- + BikesFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + Choices MatterFair
Comparable games
Call of the Wild: The Angler™ 2022 · $5.5M 
The Fisherman - Fishing Planet 2019 · $877k 
LurkBait Twitch Fishing 2024 · $115k 
我的钓鱼世界 2026 · EA · $91k 
Tobiano 2026 · EA · $61k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Call of the Wild: The Angler™ | older | $29.99 | 6,122 63% | 184k | $5.5M (exactly $5,507,963) | Expansive Worlds |
| | The Fisherman - Fishing Planet | older | $29.99 | 975 62% | 29k | $877k (exactly $877,208) | Fishing Planet LLC |
| | LurkBait Twitch Fishing | older | $7.00 | 548 87% | 16k | $115k (exactly $115,080) | BLAMCAM Interactive |
| | 我的钓鱼世界 | · EA | $14.99 | 203 60% | 6.1k | $91k (exactly $91,289) | 华幸 |
| | Tobiano | · EA | $24.99 | 81 79% | 2.4k | $61k (exactly $60,726) | Ida Meyer |
 | Duck Life 9: The Flock | older | $9.99 | 190 83% | 5.7k | $57k (exactly $56,943) | Wix Games |
 | Pocket Stables | older | $8.99 | 190 91% | 5.7k | $51k (exactly $51,243) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | Shiny Ski Resort | older | $8.99 | 102 92% | 3.1k | $28k (exactly $27,509) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | Rival Stars Horse Racing: VR Edition | $19.99 | 41 85% | 1.2k | $25k (exactly $24,588) | PikPok | |
 | Tap Derby: Horse Racing | $4.99 | 36 91% | 1.1k | $5.4k (exactly $5,389) | Frost Warrior Studios | |
 | Happy Piggy | $9.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Astonishing | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | xiaoou | |
 | Cacophony | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Cacophony | |
 | Conundrum | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Conundrum | |
 | Altruistic | $49.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chen Min |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.