How much revenue did The Rise of the Golden Idol make?

$562k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Rise of the Golden Idol sell?

Q: How many copies did The Rise of the Golden Idol sell?

102k to 166k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 102k–166k; $562k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Rise of the Golden Idol out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Rise of the Golden Idol's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 672k–1.1M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like The Rise of the Golden Idol

The middle of these games

≈ 672k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.0M–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~24k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 946 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Detective (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + VR + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, 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 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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