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Should I ship a Tower Defense Farming Sim?
Farming Sim + Tower Defense
Only 17 developers shipped a Tower Defense 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, Gnomes, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced, ×5.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.9 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $520k, ×1109 the market median. Revenue is down 85% on the market; 35 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $897 (exactly $897) |
| Top 25% | $16k (exactly $15,588) |
| Top 5% | $527k (exactly $526,573) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 35 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 45% fewer 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.
- Farming Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Tower Defense
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Farming Sim, Tower Defense; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Base Building, Automation
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Pixel Graphics, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 2,391 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 35 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.8 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
Gnomes 2025 · $527k 
Ark of Charon 2024 · $292k 
Farm for your Life 2014 · $150k 
Gnomes Garden 2015 · $118k 
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire 2023 · $68k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Gnomes | $9.99 | 1,757 94% | 53k | $527k (exactly $526,573) | DYSTOPIAN | |
| | Ark of Charon | $24.99 | 389 75% | 12k | $292k (exactly $291,633) | Angoo Inc., SUNSOFT | |
| | Farm for your Life | older | $9.99 | 499 81% | 15k | $150k (exactly $149,550) | Hammer Labs |
| | Gnomes Garden | older | $14.99 | 262 87% | 7.9k | $118k (exactly $117,821) | Workroom7, Creobit |
| | Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire | older | $19.99 | 113 76% | 3.4k | $68k (exactly $67,766) | Digitality Games |
 | World Crafter TD | $14.99 | 70 48% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,479) | Tbjbu2 | |
 | Faun Town | $10.99 | 70 68% | 2.1k | $23k (exactly $23,079) | 游乐坊 | |
 | Guardener | older | $4.99 | 145 83% | 4.4k | $22k (exactly $21,706) | Sokpop Collective |
 | Flow Of War | $12.99 | 40 85% | 1.2k | $16k (exactly $15,588) | Rongcon Games | |
 | Garden Of Mooj | older | $14.99 | 23 69% | 690 | $10k (exactly $10,343) | Kcfos |
 | Honeymancer | · EA | $12.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $8.6k (exactly $8,573) | Lukas Lundin |
 | No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape | $9.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | GameEraStudios | |
 | Welcome to Elite Cafe | $8.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) | さめGames | |
 | NecroFarm | $2.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | Podigi Games | |
 | Monster Manor | $3.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $718 (exactly $718) | Soda Duck |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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