How much revenue did General Horse and the Package of Doom make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did General Horse and the Package of Doom sell?

Q: How many copies did General Horse and the Package of Doom sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 78 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 78 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 General Horse and the Package of Doom and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including General Horse and the Package of Doom's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–21.9M

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like General Horse and the Package of Doom

A typical game among these

≈ 5.3M–21.9M copies

≈ $48.5M–$85.3M after Steam's cut

from ~139k 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: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 67k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (5 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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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