How much revenue did Grieve make?

$272–$731 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grieve sell?

Q: How many copies did Grieve sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 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 Grieve and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grieve's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–1.8M

best case 24.5M (Arma 3)

Games like Grieve

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–1.8M copies

≈ $14.2M–$33.9M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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: Arma 3 at ≈ 18.7M–30.4M copies, ≈ $154.1M–$414.3M 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 15k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (8 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Military + Shooter, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Simulation + First-Person + Military; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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