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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Hunting game?
Hunting + Procedural Generation
Only 12 developers shipped a Procedural Generation 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, Survivalist: Invisible Strain, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $300; 1 in 20 cleared $1.4M, ×2299 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 15 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 25% | $70k (exactly $69,704) |
| Top 5% | $1.4M (exactly $1,443,836) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 15 |
| 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 down 90% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hunting, Procedural Generation
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 4,487 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, 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
The Survivalists 2020 · $6.1M 
Rising World 2014 · EA · $2.4M 
Survivalist: Invisible Strain 2025 · $1.4M 
Badiya: Desert Survival 2016 · EA · $170k 
Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar 2025 · $118k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Survivalists | older | $24.99 | 8,116 76% | 243k | $6.1M (exactly $6,084,565) | Team17 |
| | Rising World | · EA older | $14.99 | 5,310 85% | 159k | $2.4M (exactly $2,387,907) | JIW-Games |
| | Survivalist: Invisible Strain | $11.99 | 4,014 87% | 120k | $1.4M (exactly $1,443,836) | Bob | |
| | Badiya: Desert Survival | · EA older | $19.99 | 284 50% | 8.5k | $170k (exactly $170,315) | Semaphore |
| | Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar | $14.99 | 263 87% | 7.9k | $118k (exactly $118,271) | Venugopalan Sreedharan | |
 | Hunters Inc | $14.99 | 155 56% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $69,704) | WYLDERZONE | |
 | PostCollapse | older | $7.99 | 127 56% | 3.8k | $30k (exactly $30,442) | Ambiera |
 | Nira | older | $9.99 | 82 54% | 2.5k | $25k (exactly $24,575) | Baseline Games |
 | On My Own | older | $7.99 | 94 70% | 2.8k | $23k (exactly $22,532) | Beach Interactive, Close Studios |
 | Fallen Angel: Hell Survival | $19.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Strongfinger | |
 | Ancient Savo | $6.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) | Erkka Lehmus | |
 | Fish Box | $4.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | DoXMo | |
 | Hunting Pack | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | Vaeril Games | |
 | A Fishy RPG | $0.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $327 (exactly $327) | LGV | |
 | Runimals | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Mighty Marv Games | |
 | Treasure Hunt | $1.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Voidman |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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