How much revenue did Scroll the Pain Away make?

$817–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scroll the Pain Away sell?

Q: How many copies did Scroll the Pain Away sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Scroll the Pain Away and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scroll the Pain Away's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–90k

best case 117k (Fae Farm)

Games like Scroll the Pain Away

A typical game among these

≈ 40k–90k copies

≈ $312k–$871k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Fae Farm at ≈ 89k–145k copies, ≈ $736k–$2.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 154 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Magic, priced around $30.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 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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