How much revenue did Gem Rush make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gem Rush sell?

Q: How many copies did Gem Rush sell?

669 to 1k copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 669–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 22 reviews (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 Gem Rush and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gem Rush's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114–684

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Gem Rush

A typical game among these

≈ 114–684 copies

≈ $163–$777 after Steam's cut

from ~7 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Board Game (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 23 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (4 of 8) and Mining (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Auto Battler + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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