How much revenue did Graveyard Architect make?

$917–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Graveyard Architect sell?

Q: How many copies did Graveyard Architect sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $917–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 45 reviews (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 Graveyard Architect and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Graveyard Architect's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–187k

best case 4.5M (Warhammer 40,000: Darktide)

Games like Graveyard Architect

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–187k copies

≈ $57k–$178k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Bullet Hell (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at ≈ 3.5M–5.6M copies, ≈ $38.0M–$102.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 621 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Team-Based, priced around $40.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Necrosmith 2022	Est. copies ≈ 133k–216k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $109k–$294k after Steam's cut $199k–$453k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Very Positive	ZombiesAction Roguelike
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