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Should I ship a Typing Sandbox?
Sandbox + Typing
Only 16 developers shipped a Typing Sandbox 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, Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop), made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×1.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $370k, ×604 the market median. Revenue is up 985% on the market; 24 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $178 (exactly $178) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) |
| Top 5% | $379k (exactly $379,010) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 985% on the market, supply 120% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Sandbox, Typing; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Life Sim
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,217 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Sandbox with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FightingStrong odds
- + Turn-BasedFair
- + World War IIFair
- + MinigamesFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + CatsFair
- + SportsFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + Trading Card GameFair
- + IdlerFair
Comparable games
Grey Hack 2017 · EA · $1.1M 
Hacker Simulator 2021 · $922k 
Anonymous Hacker Simulator 2024 · $444k 
Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) 2024 · $379k 
IT Specialist Simulator 2025 · EA · $182k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Grey Hack | · EA older | $19.99 | 1,801 90% | 54k | $1.1M (exactly $1,080,060) | Loading Home |
| | Hacker Simulator | older | $24.99 | 1,230 74% | 37k | $922k (exactly $922,131) | Save All Studio |
| | Anonymous Hacker Simulator | older | $19.99 | 741 85% | 22k | $444k (exactly $444,378) | Sicarius |
| | Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) | $19.99 | 632 92% | 19k | $379k (exactly $379,010) | Popcannibal | |
| | IT Specialist Simulator | · EA | $13.99 | 433 74% | 13k | $182k (exactly $181,730) | Pixel Team RED |
 | Word Factori | older | $5.99 | 459 83% | 14k | $82k (exactly $82,482) | Star Garden Games |
 | Comet 64 | older | $14.99 | 182 74% | 5.5k | $82k (exactly $81,845) | Onur Ayas |
 | A pirate quartermaster | older | $17.99 | 50 78% | 1.5k | $27k (exactly $26,985) | Ivan Armandy |
 | Portalborn | · EA | $9.99 | 72 93% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,578) | TheHand |
 | How To Hack In? | · EA older | $12.99 | 41 87% | 1.2k | $16k (exactly $15,978) | Red Buffalo Interactive |
 | Hamster Talk | $4.99 | 22 81% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | LINE Games Corporation | |
 | Infinity Islets | $4.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Suspicious Penguin | |
 | My Little Cosmos | $1.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | PcZ Games | |
 | My Little Someone | $1.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | Some Person Team | |
 | CHAQS 44 | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | nomorevalid | |
 | 1000-BIT | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | 89o | |
 | RE_ALLOC | $3.49 | 4 25% | 120 | $419 (exactly $419) | nomorevalid, yekbun |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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