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Should I ship a Typing Management game?
Management + Typing
Only 16 developers shipped a Typing Management 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.. 29 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.4k, ×2.3 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $750k, ×1209 the market median. Revenue is up 310% on the market; 29 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
| Top 25% | $5.8k (exactly $5,753) |
| Top 5% | $759k (exactly $759,136) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 29 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 up 310% on the market, supply 65% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Management
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Typing
- effort 1 / 10 · high · keyboard input against a word list
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Management, Typing
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 2,194 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 29 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2013 · $1.4M 
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! 2020 · $1.1M 
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! 2017 · $959k 
The Chef's Shift 2025 · $759k 
Progressbar95 2020 · $520k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cook, Serve, Delicious! | older | $12.99 | 3,713 95% | 111k | $1.4M (exactly $1,446,956) | Vertigo Gaming Inc. |
| | Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! | older | $19.99 | 1,768 93% | 53k | $1.1M (exactly $1,060,270) | Vertigo Gaming Inc. |
| | Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! | older | $14.99 | 2,133 90% | 64k | $959k (exactly $959,210) | Vertigo Gaming Inc. |
| | The Chef's Shift | $12.99 | 1,948 97% | 58k | $759k (exactly $759,136) | Panitia GameDev | |
| | Progressbar95 | older | $4.99 | 3,473 96% | 104k | $520k (exactly $519,908) | Igor Uduslivii |
 | Word Factori | older | $5.99 | 459 83% | 14k | $82k (exactly $82,482) | Star Garden Games |
 | A pirate quartermaster | older | $17.99 | 50 78% | 1.5k | $27k (exactly $26,985) | Ivan Armandy |
 | Gordon Streaman 2 | older | $12.99 | 56 71% | 1.7k | $22k (exactly $21,823) | Brouillard |
 | Yuki-Onna Checker | $2.99 | 101 89% | 3.0k | $9.1k (exactly $9,060) | 闇宮 | |
 | Author Sim | $8.99 | 27 85% | 810 | $7.3k (exactly $7,282) | EssyTheSlug | |
 | Torrent Empire | $7.99 | 24 62% | 720 | $5.8k (exactly $5,753) | Steel Games | |
 | How to Grow Your Sausage | $3.99 | 40 95% | 1.2k | $4.8k (exactly $4,788) | Little Horror Studios | |
 | Hamster Talk | $4.99 | 22 81% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | LINE Games Corporation | |
 | Dicey Words | $4.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | _Taralis | |
 | Burger Typer | $7.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Final Offer | |
 | Watch Where You're Going | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | 1024soft | |
 | Idle Crops | $0.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $238 (exactly $238) | CoreSprout Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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