How much revenue did Gem Blast make?

$218–$585 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gem Blast sell?

Q: How many copies did Gem Blast sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $218–$585 after Steam's cut $396–$900 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Gem Blast out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gem Blast's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 545–450k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Gem Blast

The middle of these games

≈ 545–450k copies

≈ $2k–$2.3M 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.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.3M 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 1 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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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