How much revenue did Pentiment make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pentiment sell?

Q: How many copies did Pentiment sell?

244k to 397k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 244k–397k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.6M before Steam's cut; from 10k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Pentiment and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pentiment's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 176k–427k

best case 693k (Murders on the Yangtze River)

Games like Pentiment

A typical game among these

≈ 176k–427k copies

≈ $1.8M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Murders on the Yangtze River at ≈ 528k–858k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 366 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $42. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Drama + Action-Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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 70 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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