How much revenue did Below the Stone make?

$45k–$121k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Below the Stone sell?

Q: How many copies did Below the Stone sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 440 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $45k–$121k after Steam's cut $82k–$186k before Steam's cut; from 440 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 Below the Stone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Below the Stone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–70k

best case 32.0M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Below the Stone

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–70k copies

≈ $88k–$412k after Steam's cut

from ~389 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dwarf (3 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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.4M–39.6M copies, ≈ $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 57 to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dwarf (3 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry FPS + Cyberpunk + Nudity; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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We Are The Dwarves 2016	Est. copies ≈ 67k–109k 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $276k–$742k after Steam's cut $502k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Mixed	IndieAdventure
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.4M–39.6M 2526x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut $730.9M–$1662.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	983k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 978x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut $141.5M–$321.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op
Regions Of Ruin 2018	Est. copies ≈ 141k–230k 12x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $466k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $848k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$11.99	5k reviews Very Positive	RPGAdventure
First Dwarf 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $65k–$175k after Steam's cut $118k–$269k before Steam's cut	$24.99	381 reviews Mostly Positive	Early Access3D
Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $50k–$133k after Steam's cut $90k–$205k before Steam's cut	$19.99	313 reviews Very Positive	RPGParty-Based RPG
Digs TD 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14k–$39k after Steam's cut $26k–$60k before Steam's cut	$19.99	106 reviews Mixed	Tower DefenseStrategy
Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG 2019	Est. copies ≈ 11k–19k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $47k–$127k after Steam's cut $86k–$195k before Steam's cut	$14.99	397 reviews Very Positive	Traditional RoguelikeRogue-like