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Niches / Text-Based + Typing
Text-Based + Typing
Games tagged both Text-Based and Typing: 52 indie paid launches, 5 of them earned $100k+ in their first year.
Showing Text-Based + Typing priced under $5, hiding samples under 100 launches. This filter changes the answer: at all prices the pair beats both its tags; priced under $5 it has too few launches to read.
The pair's chance of a $100k+ first year beside each of its two tags, ranked like a high-score table, with typical earnings and the launches behind every figure.
30 launches, under your minimum sample of 100.
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30 launches, under your minimum sample of 100.
Each circle is one tag, sized by its launches, and the gold overlap is exactly this pair. Click a part to read it. Price changes the odds more than genre does (under $5: 0.5 in 100 launches earned $100k+; $20 to $40: 42.4 in 100), so read it within a price band.
The overlap is this niche: the 30 games tagged both Text-Based and Typing priced under $5. 3.3 in 100 of them earned $100k+, against 0.6 for Text-Based-only games and 0.8 for Typing-only games, so games with both tags did better than games with either tag alone.
Both: 30 games priced under $5; 3.3 in 100 earned $100k+ (1 in 30), typical first-year earnings $303.
Circle areas follow launch counts; the gold overlap is exactly the pair's 30 launches. The outer parts are each tag's launches minus the pair's, so their chance is exact; their typical earnings are not computed yet.
Who leads this pair and each of its tags. Free until launch: one click opens the card. The full comparables list (nearest hits by tag pair, price and launch year) is not computed yet, and the card says so.
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Lens checkChanged recently. Standard: the yardstick. West-facing view: holds. Without the breakout: holds. Last 18 months: moves the answer.
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Nearest hits (similar games that earned $100k+, matched by tag pair, price and launch year): not computed yet.
Filters do not apply here yet. Leaders and shares are for all prices and the Standard view; per price band and per lens they are not computed yet.
The same figures with three kinds of games set aside: those with a mostly Chinese audience, the single biggest earner, and everything older than 18 months.
Text-Based + Typing is changed recently: Last 18 months moves the answer by more than a quarter. It holds in 2 of 3.
| This pair | BaseStandardevery launch | West-facing view49 of 52 launches | Without the breakout51 of 52 launches | Last 18 months31 of 52 launches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launches counted | 525 hits | 495 hits | 514 hits | 313 hits |
| Earned $100k+ | 9.6 in 1001 in 10 | 10.2 in 100 | 7.8 in 1001 in 13 | 9.7 in 1001 in 10 |
| Typical first-year earnings | $364top tenth $24,593+ | $404 | $363 | $728 |
| Chance against standard | the yardstick | +6.3%0.6 more in 100 | -18.8%1.8 fewer in 100 | +1.0%0.1 more in 100 |
| Typical against standard | the yardstick | +11.0%$40 more | -0.3%$1 less | +100.0%$364 more |
| Does it hold? | The base view | Holds | Holds | Moves the answer |
Every indie paid launch tagged both Text-Based and Typing, 6 to 30 months old: 52 launches.
Games mostly reviewed outside China. Drops games whose audience is mostly Chinese, meaning 35% or more of their reviews are in Simplified Chinese: 3 of 52 launches here. Review language is measured for games with 2,000+ reviews; smaller games are guessed from their names.
Drops the single biggest earner, DEAD LETTER DEPT. (46.0% of the money): 51 launches left.
Keeps only launches 18 months old or newer: 31 of 52.
Text-Based is changed recently: Last 18 months moves the answer by more than a quarter. It holds in 2 of 3.
| Text-Based | BaseStandardevery launch | West-facing view662 of 733 launches | Without the breakout732 of 733 launches | Last 18 months411 of 733 launches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launches counted | 73318 hits | 66217 hits | 73217 hits | 4116 hits |
| Earned $100k+ | 2.5 in 1001 in 40 | 2.6 in 1001 in 38 | 2.3 in 1001 in 43 | 1.5 in 1001 in 67 |
| Typical first-year earnings | $615top tenth $18,677+ | $728 | $615 | $484 |
| Chance against standard | the yardstick | +4.0%0.1 more in 100 | -8.0%0.2 fewer in 100 | -40.0%1.0 fewer in 100 |
| Typical against standard | the yardstick | +18.4%$113 more | 0.0%no change | -21.3%$131 less |
| Does it hold? | The base view | Holds | Holds | Moves the answer |
Every indie paid launch tagged Text-Based, 6 to 30 months old: 733 launches.
Games mostly reviewed outside China. Drops games whose audience is mostly Chinese, meaning 35% or more of their reviews are in Simplified Chinese: 71 of 733 launches here. Review language is measured for games with 2,000+ reviews; smaller games are guessed from their names.
Drops the single biggest earner, Homicipher (22.3% of the money): 732 launches left.
Keeps only launches 18 months old or newer: 411 of 733.
Typing is changed recently: Last 18 months moves the answer by more than a quarter. It holds in 2 of 3.
| Typing | BaseStandardevery launch | West-facing view230 of 242 launches | Without the breakout241 of 242 launches | Last 18 months146 of 242 launches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launches counted | 24217 hits | 23016 hits | 24116 hits | 1466 hits |
| Earned $100k+ | 7.0 in 1001 in 14 | 7.0 in 1001 in 14 | 6.6 in 1001 in 15 | 4.1 in 1001 in 24 |
| Typical first-year earnings | $363top tenth $20,152+ | $364 | $363 | $364 |
| Chance against standard | the yardstick | 0.0%no change | -5.7%0.4 fewer in 100 | -41.4%2.9 fewer in 100 |
| Typical against standard | the yardstick | +0.3%$1 more | 0.0%no change | +0.3%$1 more |
| Does it hold? | The base view | Holds | Holds | Moves the answer |
Every indie paid launch tagged Typing, 6 to 30 months old: 242 launches.
Games mostly reviewed outside China. Drops games whose audience is mostly Chinese, meaning 35% or more of their reviews are in Simplified Chinese: 12 of 242 launches here. Review language is measured for games with 2,000+ reviews; smaller games are guessed from their names.
Drops the single biggest earner, Cryptmaster (13.4% of the money): 241 launches left.
Keeps only launches 18 months old or newer: 146 of 242.
A lens holds when chance and typical earnings both stay within 25% of standard. Lens figures by price band are not computed yet, so this table is for all prices.
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