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How many copies did Good puzzle sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 546–887
$449–$1k after Steam's cut $816–$2k before the cut
from 22 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 Good puzzle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Good puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 472–554
best case 14k (Pythagoria)
Games like Good puzzle

The middle of these games

≈ 472–554 copies

≈ $546–$640 after Steam's cut

from ~17 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.

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

Best case: Pythagoria at ≈ 11k–18k copies, ≈ $6k–$16k 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 9 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 12.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Education (7 of 8) and Trading Card Game (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Creature Collector + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2022, and none of them 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 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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