How many copies did Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper make?

Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1k–2k; from 50 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 Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 475k–1.3M

best case 4.8M (Tabletop Simulator)

Games like Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper

A typical game among these

≈ 475k–1.3M copies

≈ $5.6M–$11.8M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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 Turn-Based (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: Tabletop Simulator at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $20.0M–$53.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Card Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tabletop + Board Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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