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Should I ship a Typing 2D Platformer?
2D Platformer + Typing
Only 12 developers shipped a Typing 2D Platformer 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, With Your Coworker, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480 in the last 2 years and $270 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 14 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $8.9k (exactly $8,880) |
| Top 5% | $36k (exactly $36,234) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 9005% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 2D Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Typing
- effort 1 / 10 · high · keyboard input against a word list
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- 2D Platformer, Typing
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 84% positive over 1,436 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Black Lily's Tale 2023 · $250k 
Type:Rider 2013 · $85k 
With Your Coworker 2026 · $36k 
HoloType: Treasure Zombie Island 2026 · $13k 
Code Velocity 2026 · $8.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Black Lily's Tale | older | $18.99 | 438 86% | 13k | $250k (exactly $249,529) | 1000-REKA |
| | Type:Rider | older | $4.99 | 566 83% | 17k | $85k (exactly $84,730) | Ex Nihilo, ARTE France |
| | With Your Coworker | $0.99 | 1,220 82% | 37k | $36k (exactly $36,234) | 搖滾冰塊 | |
| | HoloType: Treasure Zombie Island | $8.99 | 50 88% | 1.5k | $13k (exactly $13,485) | BeXide Inc. | |
| | Code Velocity | $2.99 | 99 100% | 3.0k | $8.9k (exactly $8,880) | STIM GAMES | |
 | Fan Speak | $6.99 | 39 94% | 1.2k | $8.2k (exactly $8,178) | Fan Speak Studio | |
 | Typomancer in the Feather's Way | older | $4.99 | 21 80% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | Sensen Games |
 | A Difficult Game About Letters | $4.99 | 20 95% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | Giorgi Abelashvili, Elene Abelashvili,… (Giorgi Abelashvili, Elene Abelashvili, Giga Putkaradze) | |
 | Top PUA | older | $2.99 | 14 14% | 420 | $1.3k (exactly $1,256) | Alright Peaches Studio |
 | Type King | older | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Saksorb |
 | Insert Coin: Arcade Party | $3.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | BehaUlas | |
 | Known as Puca | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | WolumAldehyde | |
 | 墨谷乡 | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | INFP | |
 | 'My' parkour(‘我’的跑酷) | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | YingYun | |
 | Escape Protocol: Hospital | $4.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Majorana Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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