How much revenue did The Frosts: First Ones make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Frosts: First Ones sell?

Q: How many copies did The Frosts: First Ones sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 57 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 57 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 The Frosts: First Ones and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Frosts: First Ones's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 322k–1.8M

best case 5.0M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like The Frosts: First Ones

A typical game among these

≈ 322k–1.8M copies

≈ $1.7M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Point & Click (8 of 8) and Story Rich (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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