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How many copies did Guns, Gore & Cannoli sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 212k–345k
$584k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut
from 4k 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 Guns, Gore & Cannoli and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guns, Gore & Cannoli's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.5M–9.3M
best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)
Games like Guns, Gore & Cannoli

A typical game among these

≈ 5.5M–9.3M copies

≈ $34.8M–$70.0M after Steam's cut

from ~145k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M 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 Platformer (5 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Difficult + Music; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2018, 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 38 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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