How much revenue did Gordian Quest make?

$827k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gordian Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did Gordian Quest sell?

150k to 244k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 150k–244k; $827k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Gordian Quest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gordian Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 787k–1.7M

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Gordian Quest

A typical game among these

≈ 787k–1.7M copies

≈ $6.4M–$18.2M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (6 of 8) and Deckbuilding (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 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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