How much revenue did Startup Valley Adventure make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Startup Valley Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Startup Valley Adventure sell?

893 to 1k copies, based on its 36 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 893–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 36 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Startup Valley Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Startup Valley Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114k–295k

best case 373k (Reventure)

Games like Startup Valley Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 114k–295k copies

≈ $442k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Reventure at ≈ 284k–462k copies, ≈ $965k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 55 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Comedy (5 of 5) and Multiple Endings (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Multiple Endings + Comedy, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 of your 5 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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