How much revenue did Strange Horticulture make?

$1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Strange Horticulture sell?

Q: How many copies did Strange Horticulture sell?

401k to 652k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 401k–652k; $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before Steam's cut; from 16k 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 Strange Horticulture and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Strange Horticulture's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 581k–672k

best case 3.1M (L.A. Noire)

Games like Strange Horticulture

A typical game among these

≈ 581k–672k copies

≈ $2.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: L.A. Noire at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.5M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 724 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (7 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, 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 79 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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