How much revenue did Old School make?

$46k–$123k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Old School sell?

Q: How many copies did Old School sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 448 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $46k–$123k after Steam's cut $83k–$189k before the cut; from 448 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 Old School out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Old School's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 391–2k

best case 239k (112 Operator)

Games like Old School

The middle of these games

≈ 391–2k copies

≈ $979–$9k after Steam's cut

from ~23 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: 112 Operator at ≈ 182k–296k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.4M 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 5 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 781.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Time Management (6 of 8) and Education (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Realistic, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Realistic + Moddable + Modern; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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