How much revenue did The Holy Gosh Darn make?

$48k–$130k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Holy Gosh Darn sell?

Q: How many copies did The Holy Gosh Darn sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 354 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $48k–$130k after Steam's cut $88k–$200k before the cut; from 354 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 The Holy Gosh Darn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Holy Gosh Darn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 182k–652k

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like The Holy Gosh Darn

The middle of these games

≈ 182k–652k copies

≈ $1.8M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.0M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.4M–$149.0M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 839 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Souls-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Metroidvania, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Beautiful + Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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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