How much revenue did Great Permutator make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Great Permutator sell?

Q: How many copies did Great Permutator sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 150 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$67k before Steam's cut; from 150 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 Great Permutator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Great Permutator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–122k

best case 328k (Opus Magnum)

Games like Great Permutator

A typical game among these

≈ 81k–122k copies

≈ $540k–$1.1M 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Opus Magnum at ≈ 250k–407k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Programming (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Puzzle, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2021, and none of them 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 79 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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Infinifactory 2015	Est. copies ≈ 121k–197k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $833k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleBuilding
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