How much revenue did 3D PUZZLE - Castle make?

$56k–$150k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 3D PUZZLE - Castle sell?

Q: How many copies did 3D PUZZLE - Castle sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $56k–$150k after Steam's cut $102k–$231k before Steam's cut; from 41 reviews (Mixed)

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 3D PUZZLE - Castle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 3D PUZZLE - Castle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–52k

best case 96k (UNDERDOGS)

Games like 3D PUZZLE - Castle

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–52k copies

≈ $16k–$507k after Steam's cut

from ~179 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: UNDERDOGS at ≈ 73k–119k copies, ≈ $604k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 47 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 572.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Fighter (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Action-Adventure, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 3 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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