How much revenue did The Answer Is 42 make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Answer Is 42 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Answer Is 42 sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 171 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 171 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 Answer Is 42 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Answer Is 42's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–47k

best case 210k (Faerie Solitaire)

Games like The Answer Is 42

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–47k copies

≈ $26k–$196k after Steam's cut

from ~729 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Faerie Solitaire at ≈ 160k–259k copies, ≈ $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 54 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 36 to 172.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Solitaire (7 of 8) and Tabletop (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Solitaire + Board Game, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 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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