How much revenue did Alchemist: The Potion Monger make?

$11k–$28k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alchemist: The Potion Monger sell?

Q: How many copies did Alchemist: The Potion Monger sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 111 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $11k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before the cut; from 111 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 Alchemist: The Potion Monger out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alchemist: The Potion Monger's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–14.0M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Alchemist: The Potion Monger

The middle of these games

≈ 4.9M–14.0M copies

≈ $35.0M–$210.6M after Steam's cut

from ~158k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 8) and Automobile Sim (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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