How much revenue did Shave & Stuff make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shave & Stuff sell?

Q: How many copies did Shave & Stuff sell?

2k copies, based on its 61 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before Steam's cut; from 61 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 Shave & Stuff and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shave & Stuff's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 234–105k

best case 609k (Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator)

Games like Shave & Stuff

A typical game among these

≈ 234–105k copies

≈ $335–$812k after Steam's cut

from ~77 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: Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator at ≈ 464k–755k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 12k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Physics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Simulation, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, and 2 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 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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