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How many copies did GrandMa Badass - a crazy point and click adventure sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before the cut
from 57 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left GrandMa Badass - a crazy point and click adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GrandMa Badass - a crazy point and click adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 459k–659k
best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)
Games like GrandMa Badass - a crazy point and click adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 459k–659k copies

≈ $3.4M–$4.6M 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.

Best case: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 976k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.0M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 7k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry RPG + Simulation + Horror; 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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