Niche hub
328 games carry the tag · 28 released in the last 12 months (vs 177 the year before) · median price $11.99
crowded. Crowded space: 28 releases in the last year, and the median game here reaches an estimated 8,387 units (middle half 4,345–26,239). Standing out is a visibility problem before a quality one — the adjacent combos show where supply thins out.
What would change this: About 32% fewer releases over a year — or a clearly rising median — would tip this toward Balanced. · confidence: high
The evidence — the niche's most-reviewed games
Supermarket TogetherSupermarket SimulatorFarming Simulator 25TCG Card Shop SimulatorA Game About Digging A Hole™Age of History 3Rusty's RetirementPlanet Coaster 2
Aggregated over 20,990 stored reviews from 323 games.
The top 5 games hold 49% of the niche's 619,289 reviews; it takes 34 games to reach 80%. Fewer games to 80% means a harder niche to be seen in.
| Game | Released | Reviews | Steam says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supermarket Together | 2024 | 96,209 | Very Positive |
| Supermarket Simulator | 2025 | 83,374 | Very Positive |
| Farming Simulator 25 | 2024 | 55,699 | Very Positive |
| TCG Card Shop Simulator | 2024 | 48,752 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| A Game About Digging A Hole™ | 2025 | 19,872 | Very Positive |
| Age of History 3 | 2024 | 18,411 | Very Positive |
| Rusty's Retirement | 2024 | 14,738 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Planet Coaster 2 | 2024 | 14,082 | Mostly Positive |
| Two Point Museum | 2025 | 12,928 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Stronghold: Definitive Edition | 2023 | 10,264 | Very Positive |
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Counts are measured (reviews, releases, prices); concentration is review-share, not an index; momentum is new-review pace between our own daily observations, computed across the segment's 400 most-reviewed games.