How much revenue did VERTIGROWL make?

$123–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did VERTIGROWL sell?

Q: How many copies did VERTIGROWL sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 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 VERTIGROWL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including VERTIGROWL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 192k–796k

best case 1.2M (LoveChoice)

Games like VERTIGROWL

A typical game among these

≈ 192k–796k copies

≈ $540k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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 Visual Novel (4 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: LoveChoice at ≈ 910k–1.5M copies, ≈ $498k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 581 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (4 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Romance + Dating Sim, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Some Some Convenience Store 2020	Est. copies ≈ 77k–125k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $317k–$851k after Steam's cut $576k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Dating SimMature
Our End of the World 2017	Est. copies ≈ 167k–272k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $459k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $835k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	Sexual ContentDating Sim
LoveChoice 2021	Est. copies ≈ 910k–1.5M 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $498k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $906k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	37k reviews Very Positive	RomanceDating Sim
The Witness 2016	Est. copies ≈ 900k–1.5M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.9M–$26.6M after Steam's cut $18.0M–$40.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	22k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleExploration
SIMULACRA 2017	Est. copies ≈ 161k–262k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $221k–$595k after Steam's cut $402k–$915k before Steam's cut	$4.99	5k reviews Very Positive	HorrorDetective
Pretty Angel 2019	Est. copies ≈ 102k–165k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $28k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$114k before Steam's cut	$0.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentCasual
The Operator 2024	Est. copies ≈ 220k–358k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $848k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$13.99	9k reviews Very Positive	DetectiveInvestigation
Her Story 2015	Est. copies ≈ 509k–827k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	InvestigationTyping