How much revenue did Esau's World make?

$206–$553 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Esau's World sell?

Q: How many copies did Esau's World sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $206–$553 after Steam's cut $375–$850 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 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 Esau's World and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Esau's World's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–49k

best case 693k (Murders on the Yangtze River)

Games like Esau's World

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–49k copies

≈ $90k–$194k after Steam's cut

from ~686 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: Murders on the Yangtze River at ≈ 528k–858k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M 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 184 reviews in their first month; the range was 125 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Puzzle + Philosophical; a typical game here doesn't.
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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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