How much revenue did 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat make?

$268k–$720k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat sell?

Q: How many copies did 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat sell?

49k to 79k copies, based on its 771 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–79k; $268k–$720k after Steam's cut $487k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 771 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 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 746k–1.5M

best case 5.0M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat

A typical game among these

≈ 746k–1.5M copies

≈ $2.1M–$6.7M after Steam's cut

from ~24k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Board Game (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.0M 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 104 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (4 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry RPG + Choices Matter + Detective; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M 5.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.7M–$112.0M after Steam's cut $75.8M–$172.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	132k reviews Very Positive	RPGStory Rich
Apollyon: River of Life 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before Steam's cut	$14.99	41 reviews Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureCRPG
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk 2021	Est. copies ≈ 556k–903k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$8.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 853k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $349k–$939k after Steam's cut $635k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$1.49	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror
MONOPOLY® PLUS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 568k–924k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Mixed	Board GameMultiplayer
The Beginner's Guide 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	24k reviews Very Positive	Story Rich Walking Simulator
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Astra Ignota 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut	$4.99	56 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessSolitaire