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Should I ship a Visual Novel Farming Sim?
Farming Sim + Visual Novel
Only 11 developers shipped a Visual Novel 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, Greenhearth Necromancer, 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.
Verdict: long shot, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240, ×0.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $29k, ×61 the market median. Revenue is up 1330% on the market; 13 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $19k (exactly $19,181) |
| Top 5% | $29k (exactly $29,014) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 13 |
| 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 up 1330% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Visual Novel
- effort 2 / 10 · high · script, choices and static art
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Farming Sim, Visual Novel
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 84% positive over 218 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 13 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + JRPGPoor odds
- + HorsesPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
Comparable games
Cloud Meadow 2020 · EA · $3.1M 
Summer in Mara 2020 · $878k 
Witchy Life Story 2022 · $579k 
Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） 2017 · $211k 
HAREM！RANCH LIFE 2024 · $112k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cloud Meadow | · EA older | $19.99 | 5,134 85% | 154k | $3.1M (exactly $3,078,860) | Team Nimbus |
| | Summer in Mara | older | $19.99 | 1,464 75% | 44k | $878k (exactly $877,961) | Chibig |
| | Witchy Life Story | older | $19.99 | 965 80% | 29k | $579k (exactly $578,710) | Sundew Studios |
| | Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） | older | $19.99 | 352 90% | 11k | $211k (exactly $211,094) | STORIA, Narrator, SimonCreative |
| | HAREM！RANCH LIFE | older | $17.99 | 208 70% | 6.2k | $112k (exactly $112,258) | GNT BOKUJO |
 | Wild Season | older | $16.99 | 179 24% | 5.4k | $91k (exactly $91,236) | Quickfire Games |
 | Let's Go! My Harem Farm | older | $14.99 | 198 79% | 5.9k | $89k (exactly $89,041) | XO_PROJECT |
 | NejicomiSimulator TMA02 | older | $22.99 | 114 76% | 3.4k | $79k (exactly $78,626) | やぶから堂, たまぷろじぇくと |
 | Morningdew Farms: A Gay Farming Game | older | $19.99 | 123 83% | 3.7k | $74k (exactly $73,763) | Y Press Games |
 | Deiland: Pocket Planet | older | $14.99 | 132 68% | 4.0k | $59k (exactly $59,360) | Chibig |
 | Greenhearth Necromancer | $10.99 | 88 96% | 2.6k | $29k (exactly $29,014) | Silverstring Media Inc. | |
 | My Party Needs An Alchemist | $19.99 | 40 87% | 1.2k | $24k (exactly $23,988) | Gilded Rune Games | |
 | PurrPlate | $9.99 | 64 68% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $19,181) | LeankomGames | |
 | Kawaii Clicker Reborn | $8.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $2.4k (exactly $2,427) | EXAMGAMES | |
 | Pumpkin Love | $3.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | Samurai Drunk | |
 | Furry Uncensored | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | FURRAI_XXX | |
 | 巅峰之路 | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | 橙光游戏 | |
 | Gnomestead | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | GORT Industries | |
 | The Alchemist's Cards | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lighthouse Studio | |
 | The Ultra Realistic Accurate Farmer Simulator | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | CGCFSS |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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