How much revenue did Escape from Grustovia make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape from Grustovia sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape from Grustovia sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 399 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 399 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 Escape from Grustovia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape from Grustovia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–11k

best case 99k (Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency)

Games like Escape from Grustovia

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–11k copies

≈ $1k–$12k after Steam's cut

from ~90 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency at ≈ 75k–122k copies, ≈ $62k–$167k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 85 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 194.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (5 of 8) and Memes (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Memes + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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