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Should I ship a Crime Typing game?
Typing + Crime
Only 12 developers shipped a Crime Typing 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, The Chef's Shift, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.8k, ×9.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.6k; 1 in 20 cleared $750k, ×1209 the market median. Revenue is flat on the market; 17 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.8k (exactly $5,753) |
| Top 25% | $14k (exactly $14,222) |
| Top 5% | $759k (exactly $759,136) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Typing
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 3,188 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.6k. 5 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Typing with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Online Co-OpFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + DetectiveFair
- + RogueliteFair
- + CombatFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + HackingFair
- + TacticalFair
- + ModernFair
Comparable games
Hacknet 2015 · $5.1M 
Her Story 2015 · $2.5M 
Grey Hack 2017 · EA · $1.1M 
Hacker Simulator 2021 · $922k 
The Chef's Shift 2025 · $759k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hacknet | older | $9.99 | 16,910 93% | 507k | $5.1M (exactly $5,067,927) | Team Fractal Alligator |
| | Her Story | older | $9.99 | 8,367 89% | 251k | $2.5M (exactly $2,507,590) | Sam Barlow |
| | Grey Hack | · EA older | $19.99 | 1,801 90% | 54k | $1.1M (exactly $1,080,060) | Loading Home |
| | Hacker Simulator | older | $24.99 | 1,230 74% | 37k | $922k (exactly $922,131) | Save All Studio |
| | The Chef's Shift | $12.99 | 1,948 97% | 58k | $759k (exactly $759,136) | Panitia GameDev | |
 | HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator | $16.99 | 937 88% | 28k | $478k (exactly $477,589) | HotBunny | |
 | Anonymous Hacker Simulator | older | $19.99 | 741 85% | 22k | $444k (exactly $444,378) | Sicarius |
 | Turlock Holmes | older | $9.99 | 897 80% | 27k | $269k (exactly $268,831) | Find the Lamp Games |
 | Uncover the Smoking Gun | older | $19.99 | 414 96% | 12k | $248k (exactly $248,276) | ReLU Games, Inc. |
 | Midnight Protocol | older | $14.99 | 237 87% | 7.1k | $107k (exactly $106,579) | LuGus Studios |
 | Hacky | $4.99 | 95 93% | 2.9k | $14k (exactly $14,222) | Cuddle Code | |
 | Liar Game | $2.99 | 109 82% | 3.3k | $9.8k (exactly $9,777) | Kark Project | |
 | Blackdoor | $12.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $7.8k (exactly $7,794) | Static Signal | |
 | Torrent Empire | $7.99 | 24 62% | 720 | $5.8k (exactly $5,753) | Steel Games | |
 | Untrusted: hackers at large | $12.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $5.5k (exactly $5,456) | playuntrusted.com | |
 | Couch Detective | · EA | $4.99 | 19 57% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Gamtropy |
 | Encounter: A 8-Bit Noir Adventure... | $2.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $1.5k (exactly $1,525) | Defence Force | |
 | HELLO HACKER | $5.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | h3ll0h4ck3r |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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