How much revenue did The Stonks Market make?

$714–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Stonks Market sell?

Q: How many copies did The Stonks Market sell?

868 to 1k copies, based on its 35 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 868–1k; $714–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 35 reviews (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 Stonks Market out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Stonks Market's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 579k–718k

best case 1.6M (Volcano Princess)

Games like The Stonks Market

The middle of these games

≈ 579k–718k copies

≈ $2.8M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Volcano Princess at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (8 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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