How much revenue did Calculate It make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Calculate It sell?

Q: How many copies did Calculate It sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 280 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut; from 280 reviews (Very 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 Calculate It and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Calculate It's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.6M

best case 29.7M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like Calculate It

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.6M copies

≈ $14.7M–$24.4M after Steam's cut

from ~57k 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.

Best case: Don't Starve Together at ≈ 22.6M–36.8M copies, ≈ $93.2M–$250.7M 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 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Management (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Survival + Open World Survival Craft + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, 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 52 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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