How much revenue did Peaks of Yore make?

$492k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Peaks of Yore sell?

Q: How many copies did Peaks of Yore sell?

94k to 153k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 94k–153k; $492k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $895k–$2.0M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Peaks of Yore and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Peaks of Yore's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 281k–397k

best case 3.0M (Amnesia: The Dark Descent)

Games like Peaks of Yore

A typical game among these

≈ 281k–397k copies

≈ $357k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 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: Amnesia: The Dark Descent at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + First-Person + Surreal; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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Amnesia: Rebirth 2020	Est. copies ≈ 232k–377k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	9k reviews Mostly Positive	Action-AdventureFirst-Person
Amnesia: The Bunker 2023	Est. copies ≈ 314k–511k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Zup! X 2018	Est. copies ≈ 208k–338k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $114k–$306k after Steam's cut $207k–$471k before Steam's cut	$1.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleCasual
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 848k–1.4M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore
ALTF4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 268k–435k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $220k–$592k after Steam's cut $400k–$911k before Steam's cut	$2.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	RunnerPhysics