How much revenue did Sheriff Exam make?

$762–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sheriff Exam sell?

Q: How many copies did Sheriff Exam sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $762–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 14 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 Sheriff Exam out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sheriff Exam's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.0M

best case 2.8M (SteamVR)

Games like Sheriff Exam

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–3.0M copies

≈ $14.4M–$18.6M after Steam's cut

from ~42k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SteamVR at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and VR (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Software.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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