How much revenue did The Artful Escape make?

An estimated 268k to 721k net after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Artful Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did The Artful Escape sell?

An estimated 49k to 79k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–79k; $268k–$721k net $488k–$1.1M gross; from 2k 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 The Artful Escape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Artful Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–13.4M

best case 39.9M (Wallpaper Engine)

The Great Soundtrack lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 2.2M copies.

A typical game

≈ 2.2M copies

≈ $10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~38k reviews

Best case

≈ 39.9M copies

Wallpaper Engine · ≈ $76.9M after Steam's cut

from 1000k reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The games you compared span 2011 to 2020, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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