How many copies did Ginkgo sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 342 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Ginkgo make?

Ginkgo is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Ginkgo?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 8k–14k; from 342 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 Ginkgo and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ginkgo's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 302k–1.8M

best case 4.2M (INSIDE)

Games like Ginkgo

A typical game among these

≈ 302k–1.8M copies

≈ $987k–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: INSIDE at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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 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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