How much revenue did [Unsupported] GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop make?

[Unsupported] GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did [Unsupported] GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop sell?

Q: How many copies did [Unsupported] GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop sell?

78k to 126k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 78k–126k; from 2k 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 [Unsupported] GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including [Unsupported] GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 482k–2.6M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like [Unsupported] GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop

A typical game among these

≈ 482k–2.6M copies

≈ $4.9M–$28.1M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Software (8 of 8) and Game Development (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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