How much revenue did Verbal Verdict make?

$613–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Verbal Verdict sell?

Q: How many copies did Verbal Verdict sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $613–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Verbal Verdict and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Verbal Verdict's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–137k

best case 193k (The Test: Hypothesis Rising)

Games like Verbal Verdict

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–137k copies

≈ $53k–$495k 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: The Test: Hypothesis Rising at ≈ 147k–239k copies, ≈ $80k–$216k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 282 reviews in their first month; the range was 32 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Artificial Intelligence (5 of 8) and Detective (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Multiple Endings, priced around $2.
When they shipped: Only 1 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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