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How many copies did Spoiler Alert sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 73k–119k
$60k–$162k after Steam's cut $109k–$249k before the cut
from 1k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 187k–652k
best case 1.1M (Gunpoint)
Games like Spoiler Alert

The middle of these games

≈ 187k–652k copies

≈ $494k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gunpoint at ≈ 842k–1.4M copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Comedy (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Stealth + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 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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