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How many copies did Photo Quiz - Animals sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 950–2k
$520–$1k after Steam's cut $945–$2k before the cut
from 33 reviews (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 Photo Quiz - Animals out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Photo Quiz - Animals's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 244–586
best case 7k (Mini Words - minimalist puzzle)
Games like Photo Quiz - Animals

The middle of these games

≈ 244–586 copies

≈ $238–$891 after Steam's cut

from ~11 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mini Words - minimalist puzzle at ≈ 5k–9k copies, ≈ $3k–$8k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 18 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Spelling (8 of 8) and Word Game (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Word Game + Puzzle, priced around $2. The breakout hits carry Board Game + Point & Click; 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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17x vs typical
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$1.99
183 reviews
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Fast Typing Master
2020
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≈ 496–806
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Nihongo Heroes
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WORDLAND - Let's Travel
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