How much revenue did Trash Goblin make?

$247k–$664k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trash Goblin sell?

Q: How many copies did Trash Goblin sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $247k–$664k after Steam's cut $449k–$1.0M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Trash Goblin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trash Goblin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–464k

best case 1.7M (TCG Card Shop Simulator)

Games like Trash Goblin

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–464k copies

≈ $114k–$4.0M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Shop Keeper (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: TCG Card Shop Simulator at ≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.9M–$18.6M 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 26 to 51k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shop Keeper (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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