How much revenue did Gatherings make?

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

How many copies did Gatherings sell?

Q: How many copies did Gatherings 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 Gatherings and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gatherings's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.0M–8.9M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Gatherings

A typical game among these

≈ 5.0M–8.9M copies

≈ $37.8M–$135.9M after Steam's cut

from ~154k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Racing (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 115 to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (3 of 8) and Battle Royale (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Music + Level Editor; a typical game here doesn't.
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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Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 36.2M–58.9M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut $90.4M–$205.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	647k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Need for Speed™ Heat 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $73.7M–$198.2M after Steam's cut $134.0M–$304.9M before Steam's cut	$69.99	154k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Stumble Guys 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	139k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
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Castle Crashers® 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.9M–14.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.7M–$98.7M after Steam's cut $66.8M–$151.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	141k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2DOnline Co-Op
Forza Horizon 5 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $115.3M–$310.1M after Steam's cut $209.7M–$477.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	282k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	267k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell