How much revenue did Graveyard Architect make?

$897–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Graveyard Architect sell?

Q: How many copies did Graveyard Architect sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $897–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 44 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 Graveyard Architect out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Graveyard Architect's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–186k

best case 4.5M (Warhammer 40,000: Darktide)

Games like Graveyard Architect

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–186k copies

≈ $58k–$176k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Bullet Hell (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: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at ≈ 3.4M–5.6M copies, ≈ $37.6M–$101.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 622 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Team-Based, priced around $40.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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