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Should I ship a Typing Survival game?

Survival + Typing

Only 14 developers shipped a Typing Survival 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, Final Sentence, 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: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.

The middle developer here made $240, ×0.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. Revenue is down 45% on the market, with 11 games announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.

Deciding numbers: median 0.4 times the market baseline, revenue down 45% on the market, 11 announced, ×1.0 per developer who shipped in the last year.
Nobody has said they are building this yet.
Survival + Typing
Fig. 1 · this niche among 16,100
Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr n = 14
Median est. gross by half-year cohort, 2023 H1 to 2026 H2: $1.2k → $0 → $3.1k (still earning) → $0 (still earning)
The last cohort is still earning.
Outcomes for Survival + Typing: Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr, n = 14
Bottom 30% $0 (exactly $0)
Median $239 (exactly $239)
Top 25% $3.1k (exactly $3,144)
Top 5% $328k (exactly $328,172)
Developers, 2 yr 14
Released games 33
Announced 11
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 down 45% on the market, supply 265% more developers than the period before.

Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.

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Plate 2 · systems and tooling

Can AI deliver it?

AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.

Survival
effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
Typing
effort 1 / 10 · high · keyboard input against a word list

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Plate 3 · the cost side

What it takes

Effort
6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
Systems
Survival, Typing
Price point
$4.99 typical
Plate 4 · demand

Why players buy here

The top 9 games average 83% positive over 1,222 reviews.

Plate 5 · the loss side

What kills games here

Developer outcomes in the last 2 years by share: 3 in 10 under $50, median $240, 1 in 4 over $3.1k, 1 in 20 over $320k.

3 in 10 developers made under $50. 11 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.

Plate 6 · same mechanic, other settings

Adjacent niches

Survival with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.

  1. + FMVStrong odds14 devs · median $74k · 10 announced
  2. + Social DeductionFair31 devs · median $6.2k · 35 announced
  3. + Word GameFair22 devs · median $2.1k · 29 announced
  4. + CatsFair33 devs · median $1.2k · 34 announced
  5. + CollectathonFair77 devs · median $1.0k · 84 announced
  6. + IdlerFair96 devs · median $836 · 99 announced
  7. + Auto BattlerFair79 devs · median $807 · 90 announced
  8. + IncrementalFair101 devs · median $599 · 130 announced
  9. + DogsFair20 devs · median $535 · 19 announced
  10. + Martial ArtsLong shot19 devs · median $419 · 17 announced
  11. + Boomer ShooterLong shot39 devs · median $359 · 32 announced
  12. + DiplomacyPoor odds16 devs · median $100k · 28 announced

All 234 pairs on the Survival page

Plate 7 · comparable specimens, by est. revenue

Comparable games

Duskers 2016 · $1.4M Final Sentence 2026 · $328k TARTARUS 2017 · $113k Suffer The Night 2023 · $69k Gordon Streaman 2 2022 · $22k
Capsule Game Released Price Reviews Est. copies Est. revenue Developer
Duskers older $19.99 2,304 90% 69k $1.4M (exactly $1,381,709) Misfits Attic
Final Sentence $9.99 1,095 84% 33k $328k (exactly $328,172) Button Mash
TARTARUS older $19.99 189 51% 5.7k $113k (exactly $113,343) Abyss Gameworks
Suffer The Night older $12.49 184 71% 5.5k $69k (exactly $68,945) Tainted Pact
Gordon Streaman 2 older $12.99 56 71% 1.7k $22k (exactly $21,823) Brouillard
Typing Ninja $9.99 25 96% 750 $7.5k (exactly $7,492) Brain Boost Ninja
Astra Protocol 2 older $6.99 35 82% 1.1k $7.3k (exactly $7,340) Slice Bar Games
Tales of Terror $4.99 48 50% 1.4k $7.2k (exactly $7,186) BearfoxBear
Typing Hero older $14.99 11 100% 330 $4.9k (exactly $4,947) Risen Realms
KeyBreach $4.99 21 95% 630 $3.1k (exactly $3,144) sawworm Games
Spell Wizard $2.99 25 84% 750 $2.2k (exactly $2,242) Wushed
Mini Games: 30 in 1 - Unpacking Hyper-Casual Fun Challenges $4.99 2 50% 60 $299 (exactly $299) Aleksa Racovic
WORDGUN $1.99 4 75% 120 $239 (exactly $239) OLIKAB
AToM - 1974 $2.99 1 100% 30 $90 (exactly $90) TMWFA
The Forgotten Nightmare Series $2.99 1 100% 30 $90 (exactly $90) Chris Radford
Beat The Odds $5.99 0 0% 0 $0 (exactly $0) Priyam Jain

Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.