How much revenue did Goodbye Volcano High make?

$380k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Goodbye Volcano High sell?

Q: How many copies did Goodbye Volcano High sell?

46k to 75k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–75k; $380k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $692k–$1.6M 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 Goodbye Volcano High out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Goodbye Volcano High's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 560k–750k

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Goodbye Volcano High

The middle of these games

≈ 560k–750k copies

≈ $2.7M–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $12.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. 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 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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