How much revenue did Godsworn make?

$177k–$477k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Godsworn sell?

Q: How many copies did Godsworn sell?

22k to 35k copies, based on its 867 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–35k; $177k–$477k after Steam's cut $322k–$733k before Steam's cut; from 867 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 Godsworn and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Godsworn's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–9.3M

best case 32.0M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Godsworn

A typical game among these

≈ 5.3M–9.3M copies

≈ $56.5M–$97.5M after Steam's cut

from ~206k 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 Open World (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 125k reviews in their first month; the range was 14k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, 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 43 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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