Games › Typing › Typing + LGBTQ+
Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Typing game?
Typing + LGBTQ+
Only 7 developers shipped an LGBTQ+ 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, PROJEKT GODHAND, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: strong odds, for a 2 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $7.2k, ×60 the market's $120 for a 2 / 10 build, and 7 in 10 cleared $3.7k. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 7 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×1.4 per shipper.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $3.7k (exactly $3,711) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.2k (exactly $7,191) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $29,495) |
| Top 5% | $75k (exactly $74,892) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 22%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Typing
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $15.80 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,391 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.8k. 7 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Typing with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + Online Co-OpFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + DetectiveFair
- + RogueliteFair
- + CombatFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + HackingFair
- + TacticalFair
- + ModernFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
Comparable games
Black Lily's Tale 2023 · $250k 
PROJEKT GODHAND 2026 · $75k 
Essays on Empathy 2021 · $73k 
Millennium Whisper 2025 · EA · $29k 
Gordon Streaman 2 2022 · $22k | 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 |
| | PROJEKT GODHAND | $15.80 | 158 96% | 4.7k | $75k (exactly $74,892) | Anarch Entertainment | |
| | Essays on Empathy | older | $12.99 | 188 78% | 5.6k | $73k (exactly $73,264) | Deconstructeam |
| | Millennium Whisper | · EA | $11.99 | 82 64% | 2.5k | $29k (exactly $29,495) | Parable Studios |
| | Gordon Streaman 2 | older | $12.99 | 56 71% | 1.7k | $22k (exactly $21,823) | Brouillard |
 | S-mail | $2.50 | 286 90% | 8.6k | $21k (exactly $21,450) | S-mail制作组 | |
 | Terranova | older | $20.04 | 33 96% | 990 | $20k (exactly $19,840) | Studio Terranova |
 | ESC | older | $4.99 | 101 99% | 3.0k | $15k (exactly $15,120) | Lena Raine |
 | Project RyME | older | $14.99 | 19 84% | 570 | $8.5k (exactly $8,544) | Strange Qwarq |
 | Locktale | $7.99 | 30 83% | 900 | $7.2k (exactly $7,191) | Mina Pêcheux | |
 | Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered | $3.99 | 31 80% | 930 | $3.7k (exactly $3,711) | Studio Klondike Australia | |
 | Grammar Grind | $9.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Skylor Beck | |
 | Qwerty's Quickies | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Devious Slime Drops |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.