How much revenue did Fool's End make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fool's End sell?

Q: How many copies did Fool's End sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 31 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 Fool's End and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fool's End's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163k–230k

best case 412k (SteamWorld Dig 2)

Games like Fool's End

A typical game among these

≈ 163k–230k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.0M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SteamWorld Dig 2 at ≈ 314k–510k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 566 reviews in their first month; the range was 45 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mining (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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 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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