How much revenue did The Legend of Gwen make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Legend of Gwen sell?

Q: How many copies did The Legend of Gwen sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 21 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 The Legend of Gwen and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Legend of Gwen's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 78k–380k

best case 465k (Defy Gravity Extended)

Games like The Legend of Gwen

A typical game among these

≈ 78k–380k copies

≈ $142k–$343k 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Defy Gravity Extended at ≈ 355k–576k copies, ≈ $194k–$522k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Platformer, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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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