How much revenue did Grandpa High on Retro make?

$115k–$309k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grandpa High on Retro sell?

Q: How many copies did Grandpa High on Retro sell?

52k to 85k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–85k; $115k–$309k after Steam's cut $209k–$476k before the cut; from 2k 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 Grandpa High on Retro out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grandpa High on Retro's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–1.4M

best case 2.3M (Dead Space)

Games like Grandpa High on Retro

The middle of these games

≈ 81k–1.4M copies

≈ $845k–$33.2M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead Space at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $28.7M–$77.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 52 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (8 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Third-Person Shooter, priced around $60.
The era: Only 2 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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