How much revenue did Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle make?

$486–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle sell?

Q: How many copies did Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $486–$1k after Steam's cut $884–$2k before the cut; from 72 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 Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–19k

best case 215k (Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes)

Games like Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–19k copies

≈ $9k–$21k after Steam's cut

from ~197 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: Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes at ≈ 164k–266k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 109 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 40 to 131.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Match 3 (7 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Turn-Based.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2023, 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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