How much revenue did THE EDITOR make?

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

How many copies did THE EDITOR sell?

Q: How many copies did THE EDITOR sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 69 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut; from 69 reviews (Very 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 EDITOR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including THE EDITOR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.1M

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like THE EDITOR

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–2.1M copies

≈ $2.4M–$10.6M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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