How much revenue did The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure make?

$48k–$130k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 505 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $48k–$130k after Steam's cut $88k–$199k before the cut; from 505 reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 121k–415k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 121k–415k copies

≈ $790k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 89 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (8 of 8) and Mystery (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 2 of your 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 70 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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