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Should I ship a Typing Dating Sim?
Dating Sim + Typing
Only 10 developers shipped a Typing Dating Sim 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, AI2U: With You 'Til The End, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $8.2k, ×69 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $3.2k. Revenue is up 2965% on the market; 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $3.1k (exactly $3,112) |
|---|---|
| Median | $8.2k (exactly $8,178) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $29,495) |
| Top 5% | $932k (exactly $932,228) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 up 2965% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Dating Sim
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Typing
- effort 1 / 10 · high · keyboard input against a word list
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Dating Sim, Typing
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 3,762 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.2k. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Dating Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + WarStrong odds
- + FMVStrong odds
- + Souls-likeStrong odds
- + AliensStrong odds
- + PlatformerStrong odds
- + HistoricalFair
- + FPSFair
- + Post-apocalypticFair
- + Quick-Time EventsFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + Action-AdventureFair
- + TacticalFair
Comparable games
Emily is Away <3 2021 · $1.8M 
AI2U: With You 'Til The End 2026 · $932k 
With Your Coworker 2026 · $36k 
Millennium Whisper 2025 · EA · $29k 
S-mail 2026 · $21k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Emily is Away <3 | older | $9.99 | 6,036 91% | 181k | $1.8M (exactly $1,808,989) | Kyle Seeley |
| | AI2U: With You 'Til The End | $14.99 | 2,073 87% | 62k | $932k (exactly $932,228) | AlterStaff Inc. | |
| | With Your Coworker | $0.99 | 1,220 82% | 37k | $36k (exactly $36,234) | 搖滾冰塊 | |
| | Millennium Whisper | · EA | $11.99 | 82 64% | 2.5k | $29k (exactly $29,495) | Parable Studios |
| | S-mail | $2.50 | 286 90% | 8.6k | $21k (exactly $21,450) | S-mail制作组 | |
 | Fan Speak | $6.99 | 39 94% | 1.2k | $8.2k (exactly $8,178) | Fan Speak Studio | |
 | Your Succubus | $6.99 | 20 80% | 600 | $4.2k (exactly $4,194) | Easyfun Studio | |
 | 迷雾岛屿：9号万能试剂 | $3.99 | 26 96% | 780 | $3.1k (exactly $3,112) | Bio.no.187 | |
 | 功德木鱼 | older | $1.99 | 31 100% | 930 | $1.9k (exactly $1,851) | 木心工作室 |
 | Oedipus Dating Sim | older | $9.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Wholetone Games |
 | 你的妹子 Your Girl | $2.99 | 14 57% | 420 | $1.3k (exactly $1,256) | GAZEM | |
 | Book of Decisions | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | SayrGames | |
 | Dating App Simulator | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Botan |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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