How much revenue did GrowRilla VR make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did GrowRilla VR sell?

Q: How many copies did GrowRilla VR sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 87 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 87 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 GrowRilla VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GrowRilla VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–64k

best case 70k (COMPOUND)

Games like GrowRilla VR

A typical game among these

≈ 50k–64k copies

≈ $424k–$492k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: COMPOUND at ≈ 53k–86k copies, ≈ $292k–$786k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 208 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + VR, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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