How many copies did Answer Knot sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 746 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Answer Knot make?

Answer Knot is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Answer Knot?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 21k–35k; from 746 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Answer Knot and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Answer Knot's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–269k

best case 857k (Road 96 🛣️)

Games like Answer Knot

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–269k copies

≈ $102k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Road 96 🛣️ at ≈ 653k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.6M–$9.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 194 reviews in their first month; the range was 109 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (7 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with First-Person + 1990's, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 43 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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