How much revenue did Fool's End make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fool's End sell?

Q: How many copies did Fool's End sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 31 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 Fool's End out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fool's End's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 162k–229k

best case 410k (SteamWorld Dig 2)

Games like Fool's End

The middle of these games

≈ 162k–229k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.0M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SteamWorld Dig 2 at ≈ 312k–508k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 567 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 45 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mining (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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 79 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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