How much revenue did Paper Sorcerer make?

$50k–$133k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paper Sorcerer sell?

Q: How many copies did Paper Sorcerer sell?

36k to 59k copies, based on its 646 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 36k–59k; $50k–$133k after Steam's cut $90k–$205k before Steam's cut; from 646 reviews (Mostly 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 Paper Sorcerer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paper Sorcerer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 61k–183k

best case 300k (Legend of Grimrock 2)

Games like Paper Sorcerer

A typical game among these

≈ 61k–183k copies

≈ $659k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Legend of Grimrock 2 at ≈ 229k–372k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $24.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. 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 that falls with release age, from about 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 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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