How much revenue did Troublemaker make?

$158k–$426k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Troublemaker sell?

Q: How many copies did Troublemaker sell?

29k to 47k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–47k; $158k–$426k after Steam's cut $288k–$655k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Troublemaker and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Troublemaker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–80k

best case 435k (WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition)

Games like Troublemaker

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–80k copies

≈ $164k–$630k after Steam's cut

from ~824 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 332k–539k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 57 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 11k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Education (6 of 7) and Design & Illustration (2 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 2 of the 7 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 70 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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