How much revenue did Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader make?

$38k–$102k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader sell?

Q: How many copies did Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 186 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $38k–$102k after Steam's cut $69k–$157k before the cut; from 186 reviews (Mixed)

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 Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 244–619

best case 6k (RGB Rush)

Games like Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader

The middle of these games

≈ 244–619 copies

≈ $250–$993 after Steam's cut

from ~11 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.

Best case: RGB Rush at ≈ 4k–7k copies, ≈ $7k–$19k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 31 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Spelling (8 of 8) and Trivia (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Design & Illustration + Education, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Design & Illustration + Utilities + Web Publishing; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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