How much revenue did The Holy Gosh Darn make?

$49k–$130k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Holy Gosh Darn sell?

Q: How many copies did The Holy Gosh Darn sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 356 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $49k–$130k after Steam's cut $88k–$201k before Steam's cut; from 356 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 The Holy Gosh Darn and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Holy Gosh Darn's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 183k–655k

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like The Holy Gosh Darn

A typical game among these

≈ 183k–655k copies

≈ $1.8M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.1M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.6M–$149.5M 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 839 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Souls-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Metroidvania, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Beautiful + Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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