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How many copies did Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–6k
$960–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut
from 116 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 Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–21k
best case 1.5M (The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series)
Games like Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–21k copies

≈ $101k–$149k after Steam's cut

from ~558 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

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

Best case: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.2M–$43.5M 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 283 reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $34. The breakout hits carry Horror + Choices Matter + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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