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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Spelling game?
Procedural Generation + Spelling
Only 9 developers shipped a Procedural Generation Spelling 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, Spelly Cat, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 4 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
| Top 5% | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 16 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Spelling
- effort 1 / 10 · high · effort 1 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Procedural Generation, Spelling
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $5.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 297 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 16 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Procedural Generation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SnowFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + DetectiveFair
- + Word GameFair
- + TypingFair
- + IdlerFair
- + LogicFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + TrainsPoor odds
Comparable games
RGB Rush 2022 · $30k 
Words of Yendor 2023 · $7.2k 
Tybot Invasion: The Typing Runner 2021 · $4.0k 
Quick Words 2022 · $2.8k 
Chat Guess Games 2024 · $2.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | RGB Rush | older | $5.99 | 166 95% | 5.0k | $30k (exactly $29,830) | Follow the fun |
| | Words of Yendor | older | $7.99 | 30 83% | 900 | $7.2k (exactly $7,191) | SandorHQ |
| | Tybot Invasion: The Typing Runner | older | $4.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) | Sensen Games |
| | Quick Words | older | $4.99 | 19 94% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Project Handsoap |
| | Chat Guess Games | older | $3.99 | 20 95% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | MarkMakesGames |
 | Spelly Cat | · EA | $9.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | Brkn Fixie Games |
 | SPELLCAST | $10.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) | BEDiBUG Concepts | |
 | Alpha Zoo | older | $4.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Alpha Zoo LLC |
 | Typingvania | $5.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | NorikiTech Limited | |
 | Word Wise | older | $2.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Chandler Charbonneau |
 | Chromapix | $1.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $298 (exactly $298) | Catnip studio | |
 | WordHerd | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Nellyvision Limited |
 | Haunted Izakaya | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | SEIREI.DEV | |
 | Consero | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Kwaussie Studios | |
 | Tome & Tile | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | AcornHunter Games |
 | Type Hype | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | supergoodcorey |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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