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Should I ship a Nature Hunting game?
Hunting + Nature
Of 60 developers who shipped a Nature Hunting game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 100 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 $750, ×1.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $120k, ×207 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 100 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $238 (exactly $238) |
|---|---|
| Median | $750 (exactly $750) |
| Top 25% | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) |
| Top 5% | $130k (exactly $129,698) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 60 |
| Released games | 158 |
| Announced | 100 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 70% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Survival, Open World
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $22.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Realistic, 3D, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $22.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 14,822 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 30 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 100 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + AgriculturePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + MagicPoor odds
- + SimulationPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
Comparable games
Far Cry® 5 2018 · $311M 
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017 · $102M 
MONSTER HUNTER RISE 2022 · $96M 
WILD HEARTS™ 2023 · $22M 
WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition 2025 · $10M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Far Cry® 5 | older | $59.99 | 172,897 81% | 5.2M | $311M (exactly $311,162,731) | Ubisoft Montreal, Red Storm, Ubisoft Sh… (Ubisoft Montreal, Red Storm, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Kiev) |
| | theHunter: Call of the Wild™ | older | $19.99 | 170,472 89% | 5.1M | $102M (exactly $102,232,058) | Expansive Worlds |
| | MONSTER HUNTER RISE | older | $39.99 | 79,847 84% | 2.4M | $96M (exactly $95,792,446) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | WILD HEARTS™ | older | $69.99 | 10,626 48% | 319k | $22M (exactly $22,311,412) | KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. |
| | WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition | $29.99 | 11,511 97% | 345k | $10M (exactly $10,356,447) | eduweb | |
 | Way of the Hunter | older | $29.99 | 8,528 81% | 256k | $7.7M (exactly $7,672,642) | Nine Rocks Games |
 | Call of the Wild: The Angler™ | older | $29.99 | 6,122 63% | 184k | $5.5M (exactly $5,507,963) | Expansive Worlds |
 | Animalia Survival | · EA older | $19.99 | 2,823 64% | 85k | $1.7M (exactly $1,692,953) | High Brazil Studio |
 | WolfQuest: Classic | $29.99 | 1,401 90% | 42k | $1.3M (exactly $1,260,480) | eduweb | |
 | Hunting Simulator 2 | older | $39.99 | 904 70% | 27k | $1.1M (exactly $1,084,529) | Nacon Studio Ghent |
 | BULT: Hunting simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 869 87% | 26k | $260k (exactly $260,439) | Nordrise |
 | Virtual Hunter | $24.99 | 173 71% | 5.2k | $130k (exactly $129,698) | Korpi Games Oy | |
 | Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar | $14.99 | 263 87% | 7.9k | $118k (exactly $118,271) | Venugopalan Sreedharan | |
 | Ecopunk | · EA | $22.99 | 133 81% | 4.0k | $92k (exactly $91,730) | Zerone Games |
 | Frost Survival VR | $14.99 | 161 89% | 4.8k | $72k (exactly $72,402) | Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o. | |
 | Hoofobia | $6.99 | 178 68% | 5.3k | $37k (exactly $37,327) | Deathyell Games | |
 | Park Ranger Simulator | $14.99 | 82 17% | 2.5k | $37k (exactly $36,875) | Polygon Art | |
 | Ember's Verge | $14.99 | 51 88% | 1.5k | $23k (exactly $22,935) | Feralless Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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