How much revenue did Anchor Up make?

$41–$109 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Anchor Up sell?

Q: How many copies did Anchor Up sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $41–$109 after Steam's cut $75–$168 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Anchor Up out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anchor Up's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–698k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like Anchor Up

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–698k copies

≈ $366k–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 301 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24 to 779.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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