How much revenue did Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) make?

$776–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) sell?

Q: How many copies did Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $776–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 19 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 Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 111k–982k

best case 12.0M (People Playground)

Games like Pure Gore (Sandbox&Playground)

The middle of these games

≈ 111k–982k copies

≈ $409k–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 123 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 962.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (8 of 8) and Physics (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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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