How much revenue did ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold ! make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold ! sell?

Q: How many copies did ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold ! sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 142 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 142 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 ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold ! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold !'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–13.5M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold !

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–13.5M copies

≈ $22.4M–$63.9M after Steam's cut

from ~109k 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.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle-Platformer (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2023, 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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