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How many copies did Gem Setter sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 843–1k
$925–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
from 34 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 Gem Setter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gem Setter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42k–94k
best case 926k (Baba Is You)
Games like Gem Setter

The middle of these games

≈ 42k–94k copies

≈ $103k–$802k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Baba Is You at ≈ 705k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 185 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 152 to 897.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 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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