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How many copies did Gnomes & Goblins sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before the cut
from 116 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k
best case 41k (Green Hell VR)
Games like Gnomes & Goblins

The middle of these games

≈ 2k copies

≈ $6k–$14k after Steam's cut

from ~57 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Green Hell VR at ≈ 31k–51k copies, ≈ $171k–$460k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 30 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 335.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on VR (8 of 8) and Immersive Sim (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Survival + Adventure + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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2022
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22x vs typical
SteamSpy 20k–50k
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$19.99
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