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Should I ship a Quick-Time Events Typing game?
Quick-Time Events + Typing
Only 16 developers shipped a Quick-Time Events 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, Type or Die, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120 in the last 2 years and $150 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 4 / 10 build. 11 developers shipped in the last year and 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $1.3k (exactly $1,336) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $12,171) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 120% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Quick-Time Events
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Typing
- effort 1 / 10 · high · keyboard input against a word list
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Quick-Time Events, Typing; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Score Attack, Action, Arcade
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $13.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Anime, Comedy
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $13.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 166 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Quick-Time Events with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + Shoot 'Em UpFair
- + Life SimFair
- + SimulationFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + Resource ManagementFair
- + FlightFair
- + AliensFair
- + SpaceFair
- + Bullet TimeLong shot
- + DemonsLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
Comparable games
Revolution 60 2016 · $17k 
Type or Die 2026 · $12k 
Many Mini Typing Games 2026 · $8.3k 
Hate-Spam the VTuber: Keyboard Warrior Simulator! 2025 · $4.0k 
Typed82 2021 · $3.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Revolution 60 | older | $9.99 | 57 24% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,083) | Giant Spacekat |
| | Type or Die | $13.99 | 29 31% | 870 | $12k (exactly $12,171) | Type or Die | |
| | Many Mini Typing Games | $5.99 | 46 97% | 1.4k | $8.3k (exactly $8,266) | GirambQuamb | |
| | Hate-Spam the VTuber: Keyboard Warrior Simulator! | $3.99 | 33 84% | 990 | $4.0k (exactly $3,950) | PUGELLAGAMES | |
| | Typed82 | older | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Beardman Studios |
 | Data Garden | older | $3.99 | 23 95% | 690 | $2.8k (exactly $2,753) | Shaman Garage |
 | Word Warrior: Zombie Typocalypse | older | $3.99 | 19 89% | 570 | $2.3k (exactly $2,274) | Choice Provisions, Gamecraft |
 | KatanaHime | $0.99 | 45 95% | 1.4k | $1.3k (exactly $1,336) | Heuristic Forge | |
 | Game-Kun: Input Challenge | older | $3.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | Kasa On |
 | Widget Warriors | $4.99 | 5 0% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Vespertine Game | |
 | Type To Kill: Full-Motion Vengeance | $12.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | cptnoremac | |
 | Silent Ward: Forever Lost | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | 月下辉煌 | |
 | PopVibe | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Musixel Studio | |
 | De-coding Armageddon | $0.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | GambitGame | |
 | MeowWare | · EA | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Tyler Ashbrook (Scree44s) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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