How much revenue did Scroll the Pain Away make?

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

How many copies did Scroll the Pain Away sell?

Q: How many copies did Scroll the Pain Away 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 (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 Scroll the Pain Away out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scroll the Pain Away's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–58k

best case 116k (Fae Farm)

Games like Scroll the Pain Away

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–58k copies

≈ $10k–$556k after Steam's cut

from ~783 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Fae Farm at ≈ 89k–144k copies, ≈ $731k–$2.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 154 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Magic, priced around $30.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 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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