How much revenue did Grey Block make?

$478–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grey Block sell?

Q: How many copies did Grey Block sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 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 Grey Block out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grey Block's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–24k

best case 97k (Observer: System Redux)

Games like Grey Block

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–24k copies

≈ $56k–$355k after Steam's cut

from ~452 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Observer: System Redux at ≈ 74k–121k copies, ≈ $613k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 92 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 364.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hacking (7 of 8) and Investigation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Investigation, priced around $30.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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