How much revenue did The Grindstone make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Grindstone sell?

Q: How many copies did The Grindstone sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 33 reviews (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 Grindstone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Grindstone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 129k–180k

best case 4.6M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like The Grindstone

A typical game among these

≈ 129k–180k copies

≈ $956k–$2.4M 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $57.7M–$155.1M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 576 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (8 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 7 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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