How much revenue did Pest Control make?

$517–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pest Control sell?

Q: How many copies did Pest Control sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $517–$1k after Steam's cut $940–$2k before the cut; from 19 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 Pest Control out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pest Control's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 84k–186k

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like Pest Control

The middle of these games

≈ 84k–186k copies

≈ $933k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.4M–$235.0M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 779 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tactical RPG (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2026, and 3 of your 8 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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