How much revenue did Troublemaker make?

$157k–$421k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Troublemaker sell?

Q: How many copies did Troublemaker sell?

28k to 46k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–46k; $157k–$421k after Steam's cut $285k–$648k before the cut; from 1k 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 Troublemaker out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Troublemaker's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–79k

best case 431k (WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition)

Games like Troublemaker

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–79k copies

≈ $162k–$630k after Steam's cut

from ~818 reviews

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

3 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 328k–534k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 57 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18 to 11k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Education (6 of 7) and Design & Illustration (2 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 of your 7 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 70 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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