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Should I ship a Spelling Time Management game?
Time Management + Spelling
Only 6 developers shipped a Spelling Time 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, TypInc., made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 5 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180 in the last 2 years and $330 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 5 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $7.6k (exactly $7,552) |
| Top 5% | $31k (exactly $30,569) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 5 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Time Management
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Spelling
- effort 1 / 10 · high · effort 1 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Time Management, 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 $8.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 1,231 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 5 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Time Management with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Inventory ManagementFair
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- + ZombiesFair
- + LootFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
- + AutomationFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + ThrillerFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
Comparable games
Writer's Rush 2024 · $72k 
TypInc. 2025 · $31k 
Happy Words 2019 · $18k 
Homeless Life Simulator 2026 · EA · $7.6k 
Pleasure Puzzle:Portrait 趣拼拼：肖像画 2018 · $5.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Writer's Rush | older | $5.99 | 402 74% | 12k | $72k (exactly $72,239) | Frogstorm |
| | TypInc. | $9.99 | 102 74% | 3.1k | $31k (exactly $30,569) | Game Game Games | |
| | Happy Words | older | $4.99 | 121 46% | 3.6k | $18k (exactly $18,114) | LAN - GAMES LTD |
| | Homeless Life Simulator | · EA | $8.99 | 28 67% | 840 | $7.6k (exactly $7,552) | Bahamut Games |
| | Pleasure Puzzle:Portrait 趣拼拼：肖像画 | older | $0.99 | 194 95% | 5.8k | $5.8k (exactly $5,762) | 冷笑黑妖 |
 | Pleasure Puzzle:Workshop 趣拼拼：拼图工坊 | older | $0.99 | 162 87% | 4.9k | $4.8k (exactly $4,811) | 冷笑黑妖 |
 | Pleasure Puzzle:Sexy Girls 趣拼拼：性感少女 | older | $0.99 | 157 80% | 4.7k | $4.7k (exactly $4,663) | 冷笑黑妖 |
 | Angry Dad | older | $2.99 | 35 100% | 1.1k | $3.1k (exactly $3,140) | Double Tap Games |
 | Tower Words | older | $2.99 | 22 77% | 660 | $2.0k (exactly $1,973) | Company Not Found |
 | Text Twist 3 | older | $3.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | Tuga Studios |
 | LEARNMOOR: Kids Academy | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | NorShark | |
 | SpelBrawl | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | prefowl | |
 | Typing Challenge | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 3bro Games | |
 | Sketch Royale - Draw Something | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tinny Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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