How much revenue did The Artful Escape make?

$277k–$744k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Artful Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did The Artful Escape sell?

50k to 82k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50k–82k; $277k–$744k after Steam's cut $503k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 The Artful Escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Artful Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–2.9M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like The Artful Escape

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–2.9M copies

≈ $9.1M–$11.8M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Beautiful (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Beautiful (2 of 8) and Mature (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Level Editor + Precision Platformer + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2020, 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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Bastion 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.0M–$26.8M after Steam's cut $18.1M–$41.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	38k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackIndie
Journey 2020	Est. copies ≈ 958k–1.6M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.6M after Steam's cut $7.2M–$16.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	39k reviews Very Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
The Plan 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
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Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 36.2M–58.9M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut $90.4M–$205.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	647k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M 31x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AtmosphericHistorical