How much revenue did Pesterquest make?

$149k–$400k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pesterquest sell?

Q: How many copies did Pesterquest sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $149k–$400k after Steam's cut $270k–$615k before the cut; 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 Pesterquest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pesterquest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–734k

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like Pesterquest

The middle of these games

≈ 60k–734k copies

≈ $1.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Everlasting Summer 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	78k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
STEINS;GATE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$38.1M before the cut	$29.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram 2019	Est. copies ≈ 39k–63k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureVisual Novel
STEINS;GATE ELITE 2019	Est. copies ≈ 48k–79k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelAnime
ISLAND 2018	Est. copies ≈ 54k–88k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $593k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut	$39.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelAnime
her tears were my light 2022	Est. copies ≈ 21k–35k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $17k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$72k before the cut	$2.99	857 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelLGBTQ+
STEINS;GATE 0 2018	Est. copies ≈ 255k–414k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.1M before the cut	$34.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
Raging Loop 2017	Est. copies ≈ 374k–607k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before the cut	$29.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelAdventure