How much revenue did Elderand make?

$111k–$299k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Elderand sell?

Q: How many copies did Elderand sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 815 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $111k–$299k after Steam's cut $202k–$460k before the cut; from 815 reviews (Mostly 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 Elderand out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Elderand's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–712k

best case 1.6M (Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night)

Games like Elderand

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–712k copies

≈ $229k–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $13.2M–$35.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 874 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 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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