How much revenue did Take Notes make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Take Notes sell?

Q: How many copies did Take Notes sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 100 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 100 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 Take Notes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Take Notes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–126k

best case 409k (Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege)

Games like Take Notes

A typical game among these

≈ 53k–126k copies

≈ $313k–$402k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege at ≈ 312k–507k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 221 reviews in their first month; the range was 56 to 665.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Mystery (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle.
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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