How much revenue did Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 454 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$107k before Steam's cut; from 454 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 Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 551k–1.2M

best case 2.3M (The Room)

Games like Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 551k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.2M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Room at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Point & Click (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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