How much revenue did Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) make?

$776–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) sell?

Q: How many copies did Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $776–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 19 reviews (Mixed)

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 Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 113k–1.0M

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground)

A typical game among these

≈ 113k–1.0M copies

≈ $416k–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 123 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 960.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (8 of 8) and Physics (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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