How much revenue did The Curse Of Grimsey Island make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Curse Of Grimsey Island sell?

Q: How many copies did The Curse Of Grimsey Island sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $990–$2k before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Curse Of Grimsey Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Curse Of Grimsey Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 144k–219k

best case 666k (Her Story)

Games like The Curse Of Grimsey Island

The middle of these games

≈ 144k–219k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Her Story at ≈ 507k–824k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 644 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 321 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (8 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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