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 the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Esau's World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Esau's World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–49k

best case 690k (Murders on the Yangtze River)

Games like Esau's World

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–49k copies

≈ $88k–$192k after Steam's cut

from ~683 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Murders on the Yangtze River at ≈ 526k–855k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 184 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 126 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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