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Should I ship a Resource Management Hunting game?
Hunting + Resource Management
Only 17 developers shipped a Resource 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, Soulmask, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.1k, ×5.0 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $2.6k; 1 in 20 cleared $16M, ×26425 the market median. Revenue is up 235% on the market; 33 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $21,917) |
| Top 5% | $17M (exactly $16,594,966) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 33 |
| 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 235% on the market, supply 85% more developers than 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
- Resource Management
- 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, Resource Management; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Base Building, Combat
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $22.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $22.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 19,534 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.6k. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 33 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 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
Soulmask 2026 · $17M 
Stranded: Alien Dawn 2023 · $10M 
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator 2024 · EA · $1.1M 
Green Hell VR 2022 · $685k 
Arctic Motel Simulator 2025 · $251k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Soulmask | $29.99 | 18,445 76% | 553k | $17M (exactly $16,594,966) | CampFire Studio | |
| | 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 |
| | Green Hell VR | older | $19.99 | 1,143 57% | 34k | $685k (exactly $685,457) | Incuvo |
| | 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 |
 | Ecopunk | · EA | $22.99 | 133 81% | 4.0k | $92k (exactly $91,730) | Zerone Games |
 | Legends of Wasteland | $6.99 | 320 62% | 9.6k | $67k (exactly $67,104) | 清友工作室 | |
 | Arctic Anxiety | · EA older | $2.99 | 285 55% | 8.6k | $26k (exactly $25,565) | Arctic Studio |
 | Twilight Tails | $16.99 | 43 51% | 1.3k | $22k (exactly $21,917) | Prokopchuk Pavlo | |
 | Don't Freeze: A Winter Card Survival | · EA | $17.99 | 31 74% | 930 | $17k (exactly $16,731) | YOLO35GAMES |
 | Ice Age | · EA | $9.99 | 50 56% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,985) | Sabertooth Studio |
 | Goo Deer | $14.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $5.8k (exactly $5,846) | VML Studios | |
 | Ancient Savo | $6.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) | Erkka Lehmus | |
 | Crazy Caveman | · EA | $4.99 | 19 52% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Caveman Game |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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