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Should I ship a Medieval Word Game?
Word Game + Medieval
Only 17 developers shipped a Medieval Word 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, Touch Type Tale - Strategic Typing, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $64k, ×135 the market median. Revenue is down 75% on the market; 23 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) |
| Top 5% | $64k (exactly $64,168) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 down 75% on the market, supply 15% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Word Game; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Visual Novel, Adventure, Choose Your Own Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Hand-drawn, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 438 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Word Game with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SurvivalFair
- + TacticalFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + LootFair
- + AutomationFair
- + Choose Your Own AdventureFair
- + DetectiveFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + NatureFair
Comparable games
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty 2024 · $15M 
Lost:Antinomy 2024 · $93k 
Ignited in Cavern 2024 · $79k 
Touch Type Tale - Strategic Typing 2024 · $64k 
角斗士学院（Gladiator School） 2022 · $59k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty | older | $9.99 | 49,765 94% | 1.5M | $15M (exactly $14,914,570) | 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame) |
| | Lost:Antinomy | older | $2.99 | 1,042 88% | 31k | $93k (exactly $93,467) | IMaiIna |
| | Ignited in Cavern | older | $1.99 | 1,326 93% | 40k | $79k (exactly $79,162) | 伤官制作组 Team Uranian |
| | Touch Type Tale - Strategic Typing | $19.99 | 107 89% | 3.2k | $64k (exactly $64,168) | Pumpernickel Studio | |
| | 角斗士学院（Gladiator School） | older | $5.99 | 326 92% | 9.8k | $59k (exactly $58,582) | Together Game, project bamboo |
 | Idle Land of Exile | $4.99 | 239 68% | 7.2k | $36k (exactly $35,778) | 所以然 | |
 | Flashback | older | $0.99 | 447 85% | 13k | $13k (exactly $13,276) | Renka |
 | Dr. Chatelet: Faith 神医 | · EA older | $4.00 | 95 80% | 2.9k | $11k (exactly $11,400) | MuccyGames |
 | 新叶旅者与少年的回忆 | older | $3.99 | 71 83% | 2.1k | $8.5k (exactly $8,499) | project bamboo |
 | Make Merits in Another World | older | $3.99 | 52 94% | 1.6k | $6.2k (exactly $6,224) | 创可贴Studio |
 | The Sojourning Wise Woman's Final Quest | $6.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $4.4k (exactly $4,404) | Orscat | |
 | The Garden of Hermeneus | $9.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | ShironoR | |
 | Questboard | $5.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Binary Cabin | |
 | 愚者之梦：零时将至 | $3.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.6k (exactly $1,556) | 零点世界工作室 | |
 | Dear His Majesty | $0.99 | 28 64% | 840 | $832 (exactly $832) | huiFeng | |
 | Typing English | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Novare Orbis | |
 | Wordy Online - Classic Word Games | $5.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | ArcoDev | |
 | The Iron and the Oath | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | FFire Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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