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Should I ship a Typing Action-Adventure?
Action-Adventure + Typing
Only 14 developers shipped a Typing Action-Adventure 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, Portalborn, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $21k, ×34 the market median. Revenue is flat on the market; 16 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $360 (exactly $360) |
| Top 25% | $7.2k (exactly $7,186) |
| Top 5% | $22k (exactly $21,578) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action-Adventure
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Typing
- effort 1 / 10 · high · keyboard input against a word list
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Action-Adventure, Typing
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 227 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Action-Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MinigamesFair
- + BikesFair
- + TransportationFair
- + MotorbikeFair
- + Time AttackLong shot
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Villain ProtagonistPoor odds
- + Naval CombatPoor odds
Comparable games
Epistory - Typing Chronicles 2016 · $1.8M 
Cryptmaster 2024 · $1.3M 
Suffer The Night 2023 · $69k 
Madorica Real Estate 2019 · $58k 
Haimrik 2018 · $37k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Epistory - Typing Chronicles | older | $14.99 | 4,030 94% | 121k | $1.8M (exactly $1,812,291) | Fishing Cactus |
| | Cryptmaster | older | $24.99 | 1,671 94% | 50k | $1.3M (exactly $1,252,749) | Paul Hart, Lee Williams, Akupara Games |
| | Suffer The Night | older | $12.49 | 184 71% | 5.5k | $69k (exactly $68,945) | Tainted Pact |
| | Madorica Real Estate | older | $16.99 | 113 92% | 3.4k | $58k (exactly $57,596) | GIFT TEN INDUSTRY K.K. |
| | Haimrik | older | $9.99 | 122 85% | 3.7k | $37k (exactly $36,563) | Below the Game |
 | Backspace Bouken | older | $14.99 | 69 94% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,029) | RNG Party Games |
 | A pirate quartermaster | older | $17.99 | 50 78% | 1.5k | $27k (exactly $26,985) | Ivan Armandy |
 | Portalborn | · EA | $9.99 | 72 93% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,578) | TheHand |
 | Camelot 10000CE | $7.99 | 47 93% | 1.4k | $11k (exactly $11,266) | Miziziziz | |
 | Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding) | · EA | $7.99 | 39 71% | 1.2k | $9.3k (exactly $9,348) | Raclette Games |
 | Tales of Terror | $4.99 | 48 50% | 1.4k | $7.2k (exactly $7,186) | BearfoxBear | |
 | 異誕監視室 | Monativity Surveillance | $2.99 | 9 44% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | Coward_Watson | |
 | Typeshot | $8.88 | 2 100% | 60 | $533 (exactly $533) | Aether and Earth | |
 | Potion Wilds | $11.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Amotoplay | |
 | 7 Ate 9 | $2.77 | 4 75% | 120 | $332 (exactly $332) | James Olks | |
 | The Shadow Crown - Frostwynd Chronicles | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Superhero Panda Ltd | |
 | Spellrite | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Ethan Pribadi |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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