How much revenue did Goblin's Expedition make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Goblin's Expedition sell?

Q: How many copies did Goblin's Expedition sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut; from 12 reviews (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 Goblin's Expedition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Goblin's Expedition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.6M–23.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Goblin's Expedition

The middle of these games

≈ 6.6M–23.5M copies

≈ $25.3M–$73.4M after Steam's cut

from ~154k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (2 of 8) and Tower Defense (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2021, and none of them 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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Bloons TD 6 2018	Est. copies ≈ 12.0M–19.5M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's cut $83.8M–$190.7M before the cut	$13.99	394k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
SMITE® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMOBA
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 9.8M–16.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before the cut	$4.99	155k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseZombies
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
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