How much revenue did Smith and Winston make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Smith and Winston sell?

Q: How many copies did Smith and Winston sell?

778 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 778–1k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 27 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 Smith and Winston and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smith and Winston's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 539k–1.0M

best case 13.1M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Smith and Winston

A typical game among these

≈ 539k–1.0M copies

≈ $4.1M–$7.7M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.2M copies, ≈ $123.1M–$331.0M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Multiplayer + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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Creativerse 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.3M–$19.5M after Steam's cut $13.2M–$30.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	31k reviews Mostly Positive	ExplorationSandbox
Minecraft Dungeons 2021	Est. copies ≈ 487k–792k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	20k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerHack and Slash
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7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.2M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut $223.8M–$509.2M before Steam's cut	$44.99	401k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies