How much revenue did The Curse Of Grimsey Island make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Curse Of Grimsey Island sell?

Q: How many copies did The Curse Of Grimsey Island sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $990–$2k before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Curse Of Grimsey Island and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Curse Of Grimsey Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 146k–221k

best case 668k (Her Story)

Games like The Curse Of Grimsey Island

A typical game among these

≈ 146k–221k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Her Story at ≈ 509k–827k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 644 reviews in their first month; the range was 321 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (8 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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