How much revenue did The Guise make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Guise sell?

Q: How many copies did The Guise sell?

2k copies, based on its 61 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 61 reviews (Mixed)

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 Guise out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Guise's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–2.5M

best case 2.5M (Blasphemous)

Games like The Guise

The middle of these games

≈ 2.3M–2.5M copies

≈ $24.5M–$28.2M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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: Blasphemous at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies, ≈ $13.2M–$35.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (5 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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