How much revenue did A Game About Digging A Hole™ make?

$686k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Game About Digging A Hole™ sell?

Q: How many copies did A Game About Digging A Hole™ sell?

500k to 812k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 500k–812k; $686k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 A Game About Digging A Hole™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Game About Digging A Hole™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 707k–966k

best case 1.4M (Creativerse)

Games like A Game About Digging A Hole™

A typical game among these

≈ 707k–966k copies

≈ $4.8M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Creativerse at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Sandbox, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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GoreBox 2023	Est. copies ≈ 632k–1.0M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.5M before Steam's cut	$8.99	26k reviews Very Positive	GoreSandbox
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