How much revenue did Oscar & Gems: Puzzle Quest make?

$217–$584 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Oscar & Gems: Puzzle Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did Oscar & Gems: Puzzle Quest sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $217–$584 after Steam's cut $395–$898 before the cut; from 16 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 Oscar & Gems: Puzzle Quest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Oscar & Gems: Puzzle Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–32k

best case 466k (Defy Gravity Extended)

Games like Oscar & Gems: Puzzle Quest

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–32k copies

≈ $41k–$96k after Steam's cut

from ~591 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Defy Gravity Extended at ≈ 355k–577k copies, ≈ $194k–$522k 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 156 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 41 to 287.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8) and Arcade (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Platformer, priced around $2. The breakout hits carry Space + Action + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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