How much revenue did Patch Quest make?

$286k–$768k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Patch Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did Patch Quest sell?

69k to 113k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 69k–113k; $286k–$768k after Steam's cut $519k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Patch Quest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Patch Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–98k

best case 236k (Niche - a genetics survival game)

Games like Patch Quest

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–98k copies

≈ $92k–$288k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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 Creature Collector (4 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: Niche - a genetics survival game at ≈ 180k–293k copies, ≈ $891k–$2.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 603 reviews in their first month; the range was 318 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Creature Collector (4 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Puzzle, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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