How much revenue did Grim Quest - Old School RPG make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grim Quest - Old School RPG sell?

Q: How many copies did Grim Quest - Old School RPG sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 156 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before the cut; from 156 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 Grim Quest - Old School RPG out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grim Quest - Old School RPG's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 358–391

best case 102k (SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition)

Games like Grim Quest - Old School RPG

The middle of these games

≈ 358–391 copies

≈ $679–$817 after Steam's cut

from ~12 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition at ≈ 77k–126k copies, ≈ $170k–$457k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 229 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Text-Based + Procedural Generation, priced around $7.
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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