How much revenue did The Beginner's Guide make?

$3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Beginner's Guide sell?

Q: How many copies did The Beginner's Guide sell?

1.1M to 1.9M copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.9M; $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$13.0M before the cut; from 23k 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 Beginner's Guide out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Beginner's Guide's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 917k–2.2M

best case 2.4M (What Remains of Edith Finch)

Games like The Beginner's Guide

The middle of these games

≈ 917k–2.2M copies

≈ $8.3M–$15.4M 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: What Remains of Edith Finch at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $10.0M–$26.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (7 of 8) and Walking Simulator (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, and none of them 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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