Farming Sim games on Steam, measured
Games where growing crops and running a farm is the core loop, from Stardew-style life sims to pure farm management.
362 games tagged Farming Sim came out on Steam in 2025 (234 in 2024), and 361 have come out so far in 2026, +37% on the same weeks of 2025.
Of the 412 released between Jan 1, 2024 and Jun 30, 2025, 8% reached 1,000 reviews, against 4.2% across all of Steam (1.9× the Steam rate).
Most of the niche prices itself under $5 (1.7% reached 1,000 reviews there); $20 and up did best at 24.4%.
1,198 more Farming Sim pages are on Steam but not released yet, 76 of them dated within 90 days.
Counted game by game from Steam's store on Sep 27, 2026. How we counted, and what the numbers can't tell you.
How fast the niche is filling
Games tagged Farming Sim released each year. 2026 is counted to Sep 27, 2026; the same weeks of 2025 saw 263.
How its games did
Games released Jan 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2025, so every one has been on sale at least 14 months, against every Steam game released in the same window. Reaching 1,000 reviews is the usual rule of thumb for roughly $150,000 in gross revenue; 100 reviews is real traction.
| Farming Sim | All of Steam | |
|---|---|---|
| Games released | 412 | 24,918 |
| Reached 10 reviews | 67.2% | 53.2% |
| Reached 100 reviews | 29.4% | 17.3% |
| Reached 1,000 reviews | 8%95% range 5.8% to 11% | 4.2% |
| Median reviews | 29 | 11 |
| Median list price (paid games) | $9.99 | $4.99 |
| Free to play | 15% | 17.7% |
Price and outcome
The same cohort by undiscounted US list price on the day we counted. Higher prices go with bigger teams and more content, and a game that cut its price after a weak launch now sits in a cheaper band, so read this as what games priced like yours did, not as proof that raising a price lifts sales.
| Price | Games | 100+ reviews | 1,000+ reviews | Median reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $5 | 121 | 7.4% | 1.7%0.5% to 5.8% | under 10 |
| $5 to $9.99 | 85 | 28.2% | 9.4%4.8% to 17.5% | 28 |
| $10 to $14.99 | 51 | 39.2% | 5.9%2% to 15.9% | 62 |
| $15 to $19.99 | 48 | 56.3% | 10.4%4.5% to 22.2% | 194 |
| $20 and up | 45 | 44.4% | 24.4%14.2% to 38.7% | 13 |
— fewer than 20 games, too few to compare.
Sub-niches: where the odds and the crowding differ
Other tags that appear in the top seven tags of Farming Sim games. Tags that describe a look or a platform (Pixel Graphics, Singleplayer) are left out. Players add tags to games that are already popular, so narrow tags flatter their hit rates: compare sub-niches with each other, not with Steam.
Best odds
- Cozy: 23.1% reached 1,000 reviews (26 games)
- Crafting: 18.9% reached 1,000 reviews (37 games)
- Economy: 18.2% reached 1,000 reviews (22 games)
Filling fastest in 2026
- Shop Keeper: 22 so far vs 7 (+214%)
- Idler: 109 so far vs 47 (+132%)
- Automation: 30 so far vs 13 (+131%)
| Tag | Games (2024–2025 cohort) | 1,000+ reviews | 100+ reviews | 2026 so far vs 2025 | Unreleased |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idler | 60 | 10%4.7% to 20.1% | 26.7% | 109 vs 47+132% | 180 |
| Life Sim | 80 | 15%8.8% to 24.4% | 42.5% | 59 vs 590% | 296 |
| Sandbox | 59 | 10.2%4.7% to 20.5% | 40.7% | 46 vs 30+53% | 192 |
| Incremental | 45 | 4.4%1.2% to 14.8% | 26.7% | 59 vs 33+79% | 133 |
| Management | 46 | 10.9%4.7% to 23% | 30.4% | 51 vs 39+31% | 145 |
| Crafting | 37 | 18.9%9.5% to 34.2% | 59.5% | 43 vs 20+115% | 176 |
| Agriculture | 42 | 16.7%8.3% to 30.6% | 28.6% | 37 vs 30+23% | 113 |
| Cozy | 26 | 23.1%11% to 42.1% | 65.4% | 48 vs 21+129% | 139 |
| Building | 36 | 8.3%2.9% to 21.8% | 36.1% | 33 vs 28+18% | 113 |
| Creature Collector | 35 | 8.6%3% to 22.4% | 28.6% | 30 vs 23+30% | 113 |
| Immersive Sim | 34 | 5.9%1.6% to 19.1% | 17.6% | 24 vs 240% | 88 |
| Resource Management | 21 | 4.8%0.8% to 22.7% | 33.3% | 34 vs 16+113% | 61 |
| City Builder | 33 | 9.1%3.1% to 23.6% | 42.4% | 22 vs 19+16% | 67 |
| Automation | 22 | 13.6%4.7% to 33.3% | 40.9% | 30 vs 13+131% | 71 |
| Economy | 22 | 18.2%7.3% to 38.5% | 40.9% | 27 vs 17+59% | 50 |
| Base Building | 26 | 3.8%0.7% to 18.9% | 42.3% | 23 vs 20+15% | 74 |
| Nature | 23 | 0%0% to 14.3% | 8.7% | 20 vs 14+43% | 73 |
| Time Management | 18 | — | — | 23 vs 10+130% | 66 |
| Collectathon | 22 | 9.1%2.5% to 27.8% | 27.3% | 17 vs 21−19% | 48 |
| 2D Platformer | 24 | 0%0% to 13.8% | 12.5% | 15 vs 8+88% | 26 |
| Open World | 24 | 16.7%6.7% to 35.9% | 37.5% | 14 vs 12+17% | 62 |
| Fishing | 24 | 8.3%2.3% to 25.8% | 37.5% | 12 vs 14−14% | 50 |
| Survival | 23 | 4.3%0.8% to 21% | 34.8% | 12 vs 16−25% | 67 |
| Shop Keeper | 7 | — | — | 22 vs 7+214% | 67 |
— fewer than 20 games in the cohort. Ranges are 95% intervals.
What broke through in the last 12 months
The most-reviewed Farming Sim games released since Sep 27, 2025. Still young, so these counts are still climbing.
- Fields of Mistria25,394 reviews, 97% positive · $13.99 · Aug 5, 2026
- Timberborn24,246 reviews, 96% positive · $34.99 · Mar 12, 2026
- Berry Bury Berry6,346 reviews, 98% positive · $7.99 · Jan 29, 2026
- The Farmer Was Replaced4,243 reviews, 95% positive · $9.99 · Oct 10, 2025
- MineMogul3,240 reviews, 96% positive · $14.99 · Dec 4, 2025
- Starsand Island2,798 reviews, 81% positive · $39.99 · Aug 18, 2026
- Flotsam2,033 reviews, 84% positive · $24.99 · Dec 4, 2025
- Welcome to Elderfield1,951 reviews, 85% positive · $17.99 · Sep 10, 2026
What's coming
1,198 Farming Sim pages are live on Steam but not released: 76 with a date in the next 90 days, 307 with a later date, month or quarter, and 815 saying "Coming soon" or "To be announced". For comparison, 362 came out in all of 2025.
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How we counted, and what the numbers can't tell you
- Every game carrying Steam's Farming Sim tag (tag id 87918), read page by page from Steam's public store search on Sep 27, 2026: 2,705 games, 1,507 of them released (Steam's own released count: 1,509). Games only: no DLC, soundtracks or software.
- Success rates use one fixed cohort, games released Jan 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2025, because review counts grow with age: a game from last month has not had time to reach 1,000 reviews, and comparing it with a 2024 game would measure age, not success.
- Review counts are the totals Steam's search shows a US visitor, which may count English-language reviews only. Steam prints no count under 10 reviews, so "under 10" is as precise as the data gets. Prices are the undiscounted US list price on the day we counted, not the launch price: a game that cut its price after launch counts at the new price.
- Tags are community tags. Players add them to games that are already popular, which flatters the hit rates of narrow tags. Delisted games and age-restricted games are not in Steam's default search, so they are not here either.
- "Reached 1,000 reviews" is a proxy for commercial success (roughly $150,000 gross by the common rule of thumb), not a revenue figure. We publish no revenue estimates.
- The full aggregate is public: /api/niches/data. Cite it as "Steam Niche Index, Steam Page Analyzer, September 2026".