How much revenue did Fourteen Fiends make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fourteen Fiends sell?

Q: How many copies did Fourteen Fiends sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before Steam's cut; from 12 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 Fourteen Fiends and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fourteen Fiends's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.4M

best case 4.8M (Tabletop Simulator)

Games like Fourteen Fiends

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies

≈ $7.7M–$23.2M after Steam's cut

from ~30k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tabletop Simulator at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $20.0M–$53.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 5k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Board Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tabletop + Board Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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