How much revenue did The Beginner's Guide make?

An estimated 3.0M to 8.0M net 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?

An estimated 1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $3.0M–$8.0M net $5.4M–$12.2M gross; 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) 771k–2.1M

best case 2.3M (What Remains of Edith Finch)

The First-Person lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 1.2M copies.

A typical game

≈ 1.2M copies

≈ $10.7M after Steam's cut

from ~24k reviews

Best case

≈ 2.3M copies

What Remains of Edith Finch · ≈ $18.0M after Steam's cut

from 51k reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Story Rich + Atmospheric, priced around $20.
The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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