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Should I ship a Female-Led Hunting game?
Hunting + Female Protagonist
Only 14 developers shipped a Female-Led Hunting 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, Sensual Adventures - Treasure Island, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×4.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 24 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $360 (exactly $360) |
| Top 25% | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) |
| Top 5% | $273k (exactly $272,609) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 295% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hunting
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Female Protagonist
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 497 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 8 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition 2020 · $144M 
GOD EATER 3 2019 · $14M 
GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst 2016 · $5.3M 
Toukiden: Kiwami 2015 · $2.0M 
My Island 2024 · $743k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition | older | $49.99 | 95,804 87% | 2.9M | $144M (exactly $143,677,259) | Guerrilla |
| | GOD EATER 3 | older | $59.99 | 7,736 80% | 232k | $14M (exactly $13,922,479) | BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. |
| | GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst | older | $49.99 | 3,510 80% | 105k | $5.3M (exactly $5,263,947) | BANDAI NAMCO Studio, SHIFT, QLOC |
| | Toukiden: Kiwami | older | $59.99 | 1,134 69% | 34k | $2.0M (exactly $2,040,860) | KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. |
| | My Island | older | $14.99 | 1,652 66% | 50k | $743k (exactly $742,904) | SnowBaby Games |
 | The Red Lantern | older | $24.99 | 934 83% | 28k | $700k (exactly $700,220) | Timberline Studio |
 | Hunt and Snare | · EA older | $29.99 | 720 80% | 22k | $648k (exactly $647,784) | Ruffleneck, Hare, Drathek |
 | Sensual Adventures - Treasure Island | · EA | $29.99 | 303 81% | 9.1k | $273k (exactly $272,609) | Puppetmaster3dx |
 | A Day Out | older | $9.99 | 607 76% | 18k | $182k (exactly $181,918) | KevTheDev, gamesbychris |
 | Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 | older | $19.99 | 243 53% | 7.3k | $146k (exactly $145,727) | 巫女さん作法 |
 | Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0! | $8.99 | 119 68% | 3.6k | $32k (exactly $32,094) | LuluGames | |
 | Scotland Yard – Hunting Mister X | $14.99 | 21 23% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | BitBarons GmbH | |
 | I Mother | $14.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | HellYeah! | |
 | ShuffleHunt | $9.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | PURESO_STUDIO | |
 | The Final Shuffle | $5.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | KaashFusionStudio | |
 | HUNTED | $3.00 | 4 0% | 120 | $360 (exactly $360) | Marcos moreira | |
 | A Fishy RPG | $0.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $327 (exactly $327) | LGV | |
 | OKeverything with 3000 beauties 2 | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | XIOF FAN, S+TEAMBABA, XU TING | |
 | Kunoichi's Cadence | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | CodeBlues |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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