How much revenue did Sorting Inc make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sorting Inc sell?

Q: How many copies did Sorting Inc sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 117 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut; from 117 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 Sorting Inc and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sorting Inc's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–9k

best case 15k (Locked In Mind)

Games like Sorting Inc

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–9k copies

≈ $3k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~206 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Locked In Mind at ≈ 12k–19k copies, ≈ $13k–$34k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 37 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 413.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (8 of 8) and Logic (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Cozy, priced around $4.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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