How much revenue did Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader make?

$39k–$106k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader sell?

Q: How many copies did Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 192 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $39k–$106k after Steam's cut $71k–$162k before Steam's cut; from 192 reviews (Mixed)

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 Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 244–619

best case 6k (RGB Rush)

Games like Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader

A typical game among these

≈ 244–619 copies

≈ $250–$993 after Steam's cut

from ~11 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: RGB Rush at ≈ 4k–7k copies, ≈ $7k–$19k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 31 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Spelling (8 of 8) and Trivia (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Design & Illustration + Education, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Design & Illustration + Utilities + Web Publishing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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