How much revenue did Genital Jousting make?

$659k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Genital Jousting sell?

Q: How many copies did Genital Jousting sell?

343k to 557k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 343k–557k; $659k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 Genital Jousting and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Genital Jousting's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.2M

best case 15.2M (Fall Guys)

Games like Genital Jousting

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.2M copies

≈ $14.6M–$27.2M after Steam's cut

from ~44k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Fall Guys at ≈ 11.6M–18.9M 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 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (3 of 8) and Anime (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Battle Royale, priced around $80. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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Life is Strange 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	41k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
Fall Guys 2020	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.9M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	468k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerParty Game
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Helltaker 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to PlayCute
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