How much revenue did The Ghost Treasure make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Ghost Treasure sell?

Q: How many copies did The Ghost Treasure sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 91 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 91 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 The Ghost Treasure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Ghost Treasure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23.2M–88.0M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like The Ghost Treasure

A typical game among these

≈ 23.2M–88.0M copies

≈ $214.6M–$350.9M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 48 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 76k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (7 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 to 2021, 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 79 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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