How many copies did GameTechBench sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did GameTechBench make?

GameTechBench is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is GameTechBench?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 967–2k; from 39 reviews (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 GameTechBench and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GameTechBench's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–950k

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like GameTechBench

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–950k copies

≈ $52k–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Software (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 174 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Software (4 of 8) and Utilities (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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