How much revenue did Escape Gaia make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape Gaia sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape Gaia sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 55 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 55 reviews (Mostly 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 Escape Gaia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape Gaia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–23k

best case 117k (Overdungeon)

Games like Escape Gaia

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–23k copies

≈ $23k–$171k after Steam's cut

from ~402 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Overdungeon at ≈ 89k–145k copies, ≈ $369k–$992k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 202 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 23 to 747.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Battler (8 of 8) and Tower Defense (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Battler, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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WARCANA 2024	Est. copies ≈ 13k–20k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $87k–$233k after Steam's cut $157k–$358k before the cut	$24.99	508 reviews Mixed	StrategyCard Game
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