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 Steam's cut; from 36 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Startup Valley Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Startup Valley Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–297k

best case 374k (Reventure)

Games like Startup Valley Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 115k–297k copies

≈ $443k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 5 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Reventure at ≈ 285k–463k copies, ≈ $966k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (5 of 5) and Multiple Endings (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Multiple Endings + Comedy, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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