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Should I ship an Inventory Management Hunting game?
Hunting + Inventory Management
Only 15 developers shipped an Inventory Management 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, UMIGARI | ウミガリ, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.7k, ×4.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $400k, ×639 the market median. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 26 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.7k (exactly $2,652) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,195) |
| Top 5% | $401k (exactly $401,001) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 25% on the market, supply 50% 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.
- Hunting
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Inventory Management
- 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, Inventory Management
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 1,839 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 26 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + SandboxPoor odds
- + MagicPoor odds
- + SimulationPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
Comparable games
Stranded: Alien Dawn 2023 · $10M 
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator 2024 · EA · $1.1M 
UMIGARI | ウミガリ 2026 · $401k 
Arctic Motel Simulator 2025 · $251k 
Save Room - Organization Puzzle 2022 · $182k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stranded: Alien Dawn | older | $34.99 | 9,715 84% | 291k | $10M (exactly $10,197,836) | Haemimont Games |
| | Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator | · EA older | $19.99 | 1,835 91% | 55k | $1.1M (exactly $1,100,450) | Pentacle |
| | UMIGARI | ウミガリ | $12.99 | 1,029 82% | 31k | $401k (exactly $401,001) | Chilla's Art | |
| | Arctic Motel Simulator | $17.99 | 465 88% | 14k | $251k (exactly $250,960) | One Slice of Pizza Games | |
| | Save Room - Organization Puzzle | older | $2.99 | 2,033 97% | 61k | $182k (exactly $182,360) | Fractal Projects |
 | The Rule of Land: Pioneers | older | $10.99 | 301 65% | 9.0k | $99k (exactly $99,240) | Horgee Games |
 | Frost Survival VR | $14.99 | 161 89% | 4.8k | $72k (exactly $72,402) | Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o. | |
 | Wilderness | older | $14.99 | 66 27% | 2.0k | $30k (exactly $29,680) | Horizon Studios |
 | The Hermit Chronicles | older | $9.99 | 39 64% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | WinterTent Studio |
 | Hunting Unlimited 3 | older | $9.99 | 37 97% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $11,089) | SCS Software |
 | EXELIO | · EA | $19.99 | 17 64% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | AI Frog Interactive, Inc. |
 | Goo Deer | $14.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $5.8k (exactly $5,846) | VML Studios | |
 | SideQuest Hunters | $4.99 | 35 71% | 1.1k | $5.2k (exactly $5,240) | Paparajote Games | |
 | Crazy Caveman | · EA | $4.99 | 19 52% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Caveman Game |
 | My First Craft Survival | $5.20 | 17 70% | 510 | $2.7k (exactly $2,652) | kuriemeiku | |
 | Five Mysterious Murders | · EA | $3.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $2.2k (exactly $2,155) | Silencer |
 | Cat Simulator: Meow | $0.99 | 65 60% | 2.0k | $1.9k (exactly $1,930) | Cat Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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