How much revenue did Trash Quest make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trash Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did Trash Quest sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 122 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 122 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 Trash Quest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trash Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228k–334k

best case 2.6M (Rain World)

Games like Trash Quest

A typical game among these

≈ 228k–334k copies

≈ $1.6M–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Rain World at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.7M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Exploration, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Survival + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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