How much revenue did Trash Goblin make?

$244k–$655k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trash Goblin sell?

Q: How many copies did Trash Goblin sell?

44k to 72k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–72k; $244k–$655k after Steam's cut $443k–$1.0M before the cut; from 2k 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 Trash Goblin out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trash Goblin's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–461k

best case 1.6M (TCG Card Shop Simulator)

Games like Trash Goblin

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–461k copies

≈ $113k–$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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Shop Keeper (4 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: TCG Card Shop Simulator at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.7M–$18.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 26 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shop Keeper (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
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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