How much revenue did FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition make?

$46k–$124k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 676 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $46k–$124k after Steam's cut $84k–$191k before the cut; from 676 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 FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–8k

best case 165k (Ring of Pain)

Games like FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–8k copies

≈ $29k–$47k after Steam's cut

from ~208 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ring of Pain at ≈ 126k–205k copies, ≈ $693k–$1.9M 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 102 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 763.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based + Indie + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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