How much revenue did Gunsmith make?

$177k–$475k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gunsmith sell?

Q: How many copies did Gunsmith sell?

32k to 52k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–52k; $177k–$475k after Steam's cut $321k–$731k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 Gunsmith and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gunsmith's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 649k–1.3M

best case 4.5M (House Flipper)

Games like Gunsmith

A typical game among these

≈ 649k–1.3M copies

≈ $6.2M–$23.2M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: House Flipper at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $23.4M–$63.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Design & Illustration, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 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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