How much revenue did SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech make?

$456k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech sell?

Q: How many copies did SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech sell?

66k to 108k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 66k–108k; $456k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $830k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; 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 SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 559k–967k

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech

A typical game among these

≈ 559k–967k copies

≈ $4.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut. 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 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (8 of 8) and Deckbuilding (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like + Roguelike Deckbuilder + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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