How much revenue did Pure Hold'em make?

$34k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pure Hold'em sell?

Q: How many copies did Pure Hold'em sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 139 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $34k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$139k before Steam's cut; from 139 reviews (Mixed)

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 Pure Hold'em and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pure Hold'em's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–512k

best case 1.4M (NBA 2K24)

Games like Pure Hold'em

A typical game among these

≈ 152k–512k copies

from ~7k 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: NBA 2K24 at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 45 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Basketball.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 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 52 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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