How much revenue did The Grindstone make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Grindstone sell?

Q: How many copies did The Grindstone sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut; from 32 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 The Grindstone out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Grindstone's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 127k–178k

best case 4.5M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like The Grindstone

The middle of these games

≈ 127k–178k copies

≈ $944k–$2.4M 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.4M–5.6M copies, ≈ $56.7M–$152.4M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 577 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (8 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 of your 7 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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