How much revenue did Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage sell?

Q: How many copies did Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 538 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$91k before Steam's cut; from 538 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 Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 433k–747k

best case 2.3M (The Room)

Games like Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage

A typical game among these

≈ 433k–747k copies

≈ $776k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: The Room at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 712 reviews in their first month; the range was 638 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (8 of 8) and Point & Click (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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