How much revenue did Urchins and Ink make?

$327–$880 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Urchins and Ink sell?

Q: How many copies did Urchins and Ink sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $327–$880 after Steam's cut $595–$1k before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 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 Urchins and Ink and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Urchins and Ink's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 983k–1.4M

best case 2.0M (PC Building Simulator)

Games like Urchins and Ink

A typical game among these

≈ 983k–1.4M copies

≈ $4.8M–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PC Building Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $8.4M–$22.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Education (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Education, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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