How much revenue did Once Upon a Jester make?

$31k–$84k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Once Upon a Jester sell?

Q: How many copies did Once Upon a Jester sell?

8k to 12k copies, based on its 306 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–12k; $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$129k before the cut; from 306 reviews (Very 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 Once Upon a Jester out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Once Upon a Jester's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.2M

best case 5.4M (Firewatch)

Games like Once Upon a Jester

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.2M copies

≈ $13.0M–$18.7M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: Firewatch at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $22.7M–$61.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 36 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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