How many copies did Casual Desktop Game sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 197 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Casual Desktop Game make?

Casual Desktop Game is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Casual Desktop Game?

Estimated owners: ≈ 5k–8k; from 197 reviews (Very Positive)

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

Does this actually work?

We left Casual Desktop Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Casual Desktop Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–15.4M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Casual Desktop Game

The middle of these games

≈ 2.8M–15.4M copies

≈ $23.4M–$162.9M after Steam's cut

from ~159k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 31k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Moddable (8 of 8) and Sandbox (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 79 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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People Playground 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9.1M–14.9M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut $45.7M–$103.9M before the cut	$9.99	317k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxGore
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M 7.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
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Farming Simulator 22 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.6M–$34.0M after Steam's cut $23.0M–$52.2M before the cut	$19.99	93k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Farming Sim
Mount & Blade: Warband 2010	Est. copies ≈ 10.9M–17.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $59.7M–$160.6M after Steam's cut $108.6M–$247.1M before the cut	$19.99	172k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MedievalRPG
Blade and Sorcery 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.1M after Steam's cut $23.1M–$52.5M before the cut	$29.99	62k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRSwordplay
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