How much revenue did Verbal Verdict make?

$613–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Verbal Verdict sell?

Q: How many copies did Verbal Verdict sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $613–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 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 Verbal Verdict out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Verbal Verdict's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–136k

best case 193k (The Test: Hypothesis Rising)

Games like Verbal Verdict

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–136k copies

≈ $52k–$495k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: The Test: Hypothesis Rising at ≈ 147k–239k copies, ≈ $80k–$216k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 282 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 32 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Artificial Intelligence (5 of 8) and Detective (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Multiple Endings, priced around $2.
The era: Only 1 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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