How much revenue did Giants Uprising make?

$35k–$95k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Giants Uprising sell?

Q: How many copies did Giants Uprising sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 258 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $64k–$145k before Steam's cut; from 258 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 Giants Uprising and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Giants Uprising's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 87k–351k

best case 878k (Maneater)

Games like Giants Uprising

A typical game among these

≈ 87k–351k copies

≈ $844k–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Maneater at ≈ 669k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 171 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Dark Humor, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 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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