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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 the cut
from 116 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children out and predicted the genre 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, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–101k
best case 1.5M (The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series)
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The middle of these games

≈ 18k–101k copies

≈ $113k–$235k after Steam's cut

from ~700 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.0M–$42.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 283 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Horror, priced around $34. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Story Rich + Lore-Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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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