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Should I ship a Typing Resource Management game?
Resource Management + Typing
Only 16 developers shipped a Typing Resource 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 Carcass, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $490, level with the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $270. Revenue is up 145% on the market; 20 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $494 (exactly $494) |
| Top 25% | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) |
| Top 5% | $23k (exactly $22,777) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.31 |
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 145% on the market, supply 335% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Resource Management
- 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
- Resource Management, Typing
- Price point
- $4.31 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 55% positive over 194 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 20 games are announced against 13 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Resource Management with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Uncover the Smoking Gun 2024 · $248k 
会计模拟器 2022 · EA · $32k 
The Carcass 2026 · $23k 
Type or Die 2026 · $12k 
Hamster Talk 2026 · $3.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Uncover the Smoking Gun | older | $19.99 | 414 96% | 12k | $248k (exactly $248,276) | ReLU Games, Inc. |
| | 会计模拟器 | · EA older | $9.99 | 107 78% | 3.2k | $32k (exactly $32,068) | 曲波 |
| | The Carcass | $9.99 | 76 26% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | PiqFocus Interactive | |
| | Type or Die | $13.99 | 29 31% | 870 | $12k (exactly $12,171) | Type or Die | |
| | Hamster Talk | $4.99 | 22 81% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | LINE Games Corporation | |
 | KeyBreach | $4.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | sawworm Games | |
 | Turnout | $5.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | eevoe | |
 | PromptCrafter | older | $6.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | DevHaskell |
 | Capslock | · EA older | $7.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Sticky Platypus |
 | My Little Cosmos | $1.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | PcZ Games | |
 | Wordfright | $2.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | Silvercity Sharks | |
 | wageslave | $5.49 | 3 100% | 90 | $494 (exactly $494) | Cauldron Games | |
 | Verbal Beatdown | $2.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Rob Law | |
 | Compile & Defend | $4.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Codx.io |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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