How much revenue did Gnomes make?

$126k–$338k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gnomes sell?

Q: How many copies did Gnomes sell?

46k to 74k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–74k; $126k–$338k after Steam's cut $229k–$520k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Gnomes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gnomes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–121k

best case 448k (The Last Spell)

Games like Gnomes

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–121k copies

≈ $104k–$726k after Steam's cut

from ~793 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Last Spell at ≈ 341k–555k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 349 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Deckbuilding (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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