How much revenue did Toolboy make?

$613–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Toolboy sell?

Q: How many copies did Toolboy sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $613–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 15 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 Toolboy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Toolboy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.1M–14.4M

best case 38.7M (Portal 2)

Games like Toolboy

The middle of these games

≈ 7.1M–14.4M copies

≈ $65.4M–$97.0M after Steam's cut

from ~199k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–47.9M copies, ≈ $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Platformer + Dark Humor + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2022, and none of them 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 79 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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