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Should I ship a Mini Golf Simulation game?
Simulation + Mini Golf
Only 14 developers shipped a Mini Golf Simulation 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, Tower Unite, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $960, ×1.5 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $270. Revenue is flat on the market; 12 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $959 (exactly $959) |
| Top 25% | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) |
| Top 5% | $9.7M (exactly $9,737,329) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 flat on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Simulation
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Mini Golf
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Simulation, Mini Golf; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Arcade, Golf, Physics
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, Family Friendly
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 16,566 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
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Comparable games
Golf With Your Friends 2020 · $23M 
Tower Unite 2025 · $9.7M 
Golf It! 2023 · $6.7M 
WHAT THE GOLF? 2020 · $2.6M 
GolfTopia 2021 · $286k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Golf With Your Friends | older | $14.99 | 50,748 88% | 1.5M | $23M (exactly $22,821,376) | Blacklight Interactive, Team17 |
| | Tower Unite | $19.99 | 16,237 89% | 487k | $9.7M (exactly $9,737,329) | PixelTail Games | |
| | Golf It! | older | $8.99 | 24,695 90% | 741k | $6.7M (exactly $6,660,242) | Perfuse Entertainment |
| | WHAT THE GOLF? | older | $19.99 | 4,324 93% | 130k | $2.6M (exactly $2,593,103) | Triband |
| | GolfTopia | older | $19.99 | 477 95% | 14k | $286k (exactly $286,057) | MinMax Games Ltd. |
 | Golf Around! | older | $9.99 | 823 94% | 25k | $247k (exactly $246,653) | Hough Studio |
 | Mini Golf Arena | · EA older | $8.99 | 385 51% | 12k | $104k (exactly $103,834) | Evoluta Studio |
 | Puttler | $7.99 | 244 95% | 7.3k | $58k (exactly $58,487) | Bean Juice Studios | |
 | Vertiginous Golf | older | $9.99 | 113 62% | 3.4k | $34k (exactly $33,866) | Kinelco & Lone Elk Creative |
 | Up to Par | $19.99 | 49 73% | 1.5k | $29k (exactly $29,385) | It's Anecdotal | |
 | Golf Around 2 | $7.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) | Hough Studio | |
 | Disc Frenzy | $14.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $2.7k (exactly $2,698) | SupraOrbital Studios | |
 | Swingularity | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Team Redshift | |
 | Ping Pan | $7.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $959 (exactly $959) | Stonework Games LLC | |
 | Bow Course - Archery Golf | · EA | $11.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $719 (exactly $719) | Korpi Games Oy |
 | Roll'N With Da Punchez | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Kamatayan Workz | |
 | Bonds of Zeniarai | $2.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | KIMIDORI SOFT |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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