How much revenue did Golden Record Retriever make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Golden Record Retriever sell?

Q: How many copies did Golden Record Retriever sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut; from 51 reviews (Mixed)

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 Golden Record Retriever out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Golden Record Retriever's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–29k

best case 684k (Hand of Fate)

Games like Golden Record Retriever

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–29k copies

≈ $29k–$137k after Steam's cut

from ~527 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: Hand of Fate at ≈ 521k–847k copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 130 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 102 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Card Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Deckbuilding + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry RPG + Dark Fantasy + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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