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

Estimated copies sold
≈ 27k–45k
$60k–$162k after Steam's cut $110k–$250k before Steam's cut
from 563 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 Remastered and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 43k–61k
best case 262k (Scribble It!)
Games like Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered

A typical game among these

≈ 43k–61k copies

≈ $29k–$294k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: Scribble It! at ≈ 199k–324k copies. 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 189 reviews in their first month; the range was 34 to 310.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Word Game (5 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Word Game + Comedy. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Multiplayer + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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