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

$49k–$132k 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 21k copies, based on its 513 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $49k–$132k after Steam's cut $89k–$202k before Steam's cut; from 513 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 The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–417k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 122k–417k copies

≈ $792k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (8 of 8) and Mystery (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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