How much revenue did Return to Monkey Island make?

$1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return to Monkey Island sell?

Q: How many copies did Return to Monkey Island sell?

226k to 367k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 226k–367k; $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Return to Monkey Island and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return to Monkey Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 183k–589k

best case 16.5M (Portal)

Games like Return to Monkey Island

A typical game among these

≈ 183k–589k copies

≈ $989k–$3.2M 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: Portal at ≈ 12.6M–20.5M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 797 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Puzzle-Platformer + First-Person + 3D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2022, 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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