How much revenue did Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey make?

Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey sell?

Q: How many copies did Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 429 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; from 429 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 Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 197k–258k

best case 655k (The Test)

Games like Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey

A typical game among these

≈ 197k–258k copies

≈ $1.2M–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: The Test at ≈ 499k–810k copies, ≈ $273k–$734k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 189 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Word Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Singleplayer + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 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 43 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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The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–810k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
Cyber Manhunt 2021	Est. copies ≈ 390k–634k 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SimulationRPG
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WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界 2017	Est. copies ≈ 189k–307k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $778k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
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