How much revenue did Golden Record Retriever make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Golden Record Retriever sell?

Q: How many copies did Golden Record Retriever sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut; from 51 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 Golden Record Retriever and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Golden Record Retriever's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–100k

best case 685k (Hand of Fate)

Games like Golden Record Retriever

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–100k copies

≈ $31k–$649k after Steam's cut

from ~871 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: Hand of Fate at ≈ 522k–848k copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 130 reviews in their first month; the range was 102 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Card Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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