How much revenue did Above the Fold make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Above the Fold sell?

Q: How many copies did Above the Fold sell?

790 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 790–1k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 26 reviews (Mixed)

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 Above the Fold and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Above the Fold's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 211k–231k

best case 742k (60 Seconds! Reatomized)

Games like Above the Fold

A typical game among these

≈ 211k–231k copies

≈ $1.0M–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: 60 Seconds! Reatomized at ≈ 566k–919k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 780 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Choose Your Own Adventure + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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