How much revenue did Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams make?

$501k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams sell?

Q: How many copies did Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams sell?

121k to 197k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–197k; $501k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $910k–$2.1M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 321k–1.3M

best case 1.6M (Rogue Legacy)

Games like Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

The middle of these games

≈ 321k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.5M–$8.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

Best case: Rogue Legacy at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguevania + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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