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Should I ship a Walking Simulator Hunting game?
Hunting + Walking Simulator
Only 14 developers shipped a Walking Simulator 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, BULT: Hunting simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.2k, ×3.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.7k; 1 in 20 cleared $260k, ×415 the market median. Revenue is up 55% on the market; 23 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.6k (exactly $1,618) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) |
| Top 25% | $130k (exactly $129,698) |
| Top 5% | $260k (exactly $260,439) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 56 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 55% on the market, supply as many developers as 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
- Walking Simulator
- 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, Walking Simulator; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Exploration, Co-op
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, First-Person, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 2,745 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.7k. 6 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 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
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017 · $102M 
The Isle 2015 · EA · $67M 
Call of the Wild: The Angler™ 2022 · $5.5M 
Animalia Survival 2021 · EA · $1.7M 
The Red Lantern 2021 · $700k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | theHunter: Call of the Wild™ | older | $19.99 | 170,472 89% | 5.1M | $102M (exactly $102,232,058) | Expansive Worlds |
| | The Isle | · EA older | $19.99 | 111,397 80% | 3.3M | $67M (exactly $66,804,781) | Afterthought LLC |
| | 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 |
| | The Red Lantern | older | $24.99 | 934 83% | 28k | $700k (exactly $700,220) | Timberline Studio |
 | Squirrel Stapler | older | $7.99 | 2,062 96% | 62k | $494k (exactly $494,261) | David Szymanski |
 | Prehistoric Hunt | · EA older | $17.99 | 678 84% | 20k | $366k (exactly $365,917) | Antiproto Studios |
 | BULT: Hunting simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 869 87% | 26k | $260k (exactly $260,439) | Nordrise |
 | The Lightkeeper | $7.99 | 1,081 81% | 32k | $259k (exactly $259,116) | Darkphobia Games | |
 | Morels: The Hunt | older | $19.99 | 260 86% | 7.8k | $156k (exactly $155,922) | Abrams Studios |
 | Hachishaku | $9.99 | 456 85% | 14k | $137k (exactly $136,663) | Trash Panda Games | |
 | Virtual Hunter | $24.99 | 173 71% | 5.2k | $130k (exactly $129,698) | Korpi Games Oy | |
 | Ember's Verge | $14.99 | 51 88% | 1.5k | $23k (exactly $22,935) | Feralless Games | |
 | Morels: Out of this World | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Abrams Studios LLC | |
 | Bunny Hurling | $2.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) | Mounpeak Games | |
 | Cat Simulator: Meow | $0.99 | 65 60% | 2.0k | $1.9k (exactly $1,930) | Cat Studio | |
 | Mushroom Hunter World | $7.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) | Poroshin Develop | |
 | Open Hunting XL | $8.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $1.6k (exactly $1,618) | Kunstaat |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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