How much revenue did The Upturned make?

$185k–$497k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Upturned sell?

Q: How many copies did The Upturned sell?

67k to 109k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–109k; $185k–$497k after Steam's cut $336k–$764k before the cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Upturned out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Upturned's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 158k–731k

best case 13.7M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like The Upturned

The middle of these games

≈ 158k–731k copies

≈ $487k–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.4M–17.0M copies, ≈ $28.7M–$77.0M 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 521 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 317 to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Comedy (8 of 8) and Physics (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Physics, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Horror + Online Co-Op + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 1 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 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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R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.4M–17.0M 64x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $28.7M–$77.0M after Steam's cut $52.1M–$118.5M before the cut	$9.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Topple Tactics 2023	Est. copies ≈ 39k–63k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $106k–$285k after Steam's cut $193k–$438k before the cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PhysicsComedy
Goat Simulator 2014	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut $19.6M–$44.7M before the cut	$9.99	70k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFunny
Surgeon Simulator 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before the cut	$9.99	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFunny
Octodad: Dadliest Catch 2014	Est. copies ≈ 599k–974k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before the cut	$14.99	11k reviews Very Positive	ComedyPhysics
Mount Your Friends 2014	Est. copies ≈ 429k–698k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $589k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut	$4.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FunnyComedy
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