How much revenue did Spoiler Alert make?

$60k–$162k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spoiler Alert sell?

Q: How many copies did Spoiler Alert sell?

73k to 119k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 73k–119k; $60k–$162k after Steam's cut $109k–$249k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Spoiler Alert and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spoiler Alert's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 189k–652k

best case 1.1M (Gunpoint)

Games like Spoiler Alert

A typical game among these

≈ 189k–652k copies

≈ $495k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gunpoint at ≈ 843k–1.4M copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and Comedy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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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