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Should I ship a Futuristic Typing game?
Typing + Futuristic
Only 14 developers shipped a Futuristic 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, Camelot 10000CE, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $300. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 19 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $3.1k (exactly $3,112) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,266) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 4 / 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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Typing
- effort 1 / 10 · high · keyboard input against a word list
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Typing; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action-Adventure, Adventure, Programming
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Atmospheric, Linear
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 165 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 19 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Typing with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
MINDHACK 2023 · EA · $277k 
Uncover the Smoking Gun 2024 · $248k 
Essays on Empathy 2021 · $73k 
Outshine 2022 · $29k 
Hacker's Beat 2015 · $17k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | MINDHACK | · EA older | $12.99 | 712 93% | 21k | $277k (exactly $277,466) | VODKAdemo? |
| | Uncover the Smoking Gun | older | $19.99 | 414 96% | 12k | $248k (exactly $248,276) | ReLU Games, Inc. |
| | Essays on Empathy | older | $12.99 | 188 78% | 5.6k | $73k (exactly $73,264) | Deconstructeam |
| | Outshine | older | $12.99 | 74 89% | 2.2k | $29k (exactly $28,838) | Fishing Cactus |
| | Hacker's Beat | older | $9.99 | 57 50% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,083) | TEAM TANDS PLUS |
 | 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 |
 | Void Future: Hacking Protocol | $14.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $7.6k (exactly $7,645) | RVL Interactive | |
 | Astra Protocol 2 | older | $6.99 | 35 82% | 1.1k | $7.3k (exactly $7,340) | Slice Bar Games |
 | Extortion | older | $4.99 | 25 88% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Dysnomia |
 | 迷雾岛屿：9号万能试剂 | $3.99 | 26 96% | 780 | $3.1k (exactly $3,112) | Bio.no.187 | |
 | HyperDissonance | $4.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | meta, autoselff | |
 | My Little Cosmos | $1.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | PcZ Games | |
 | TYPER3000 | $11.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $719 (exactly $719) | ALBATROS | |
 | RE_ALLOC | $3.49 | 4 25% | 120 | $419 (exactly $419) | nomorevalid, yekbun | |
 | Typomon Hunter | $11.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Esoteric Games | |
 | Type Strike | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | One64 Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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