How much revenue did FROGUE make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FROGUE sell?

Q: How many copies did FROGUE sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 46 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before the cut; from 46 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 FROGUE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FROGUE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.1M–7.0M

best case 8.8M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like FROGUE

The middle of these games

≈ 5.1M–7.0M copies

≈ $19.2M–$56.8M after Steam's cut

from ~90k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 80.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Dark Fantasy, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 3 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 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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Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut $28.0M–$63.6M before the cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
The Binding of Isaac 2011	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before the cut	$4.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
Darkest Dungeon® 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.9M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut $84.0M–$191.0M before the cut	$24.99	162k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based CombatDark Fantasy
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