How much revenue did Goblins and Grottos make?

$8k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Goblins and Grottos sell?

Q: How many copies did Goblins and Grottos sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 82 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $8k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before Steam's cut; from 82 reviews (Mixed)

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 Goblins and Grottos and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Goblins and Grottos's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–3.8M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Goblins and Grottos

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–3.8M copies

≈ $130k–$21.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (6 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2020, 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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