How much revenue did Gnomes make?

$123k–$331k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gnomes sell?

Q: How many copies did Gnomes sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $123k–$331k after Steam's cut $224k–$510k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Gnomes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gnomes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–121k

best case 444k (The Last Spell)

Games like Gnomes

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–121k copies

≈ $104k–$724k after Steam's cut

from ~789 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Last Spell at ≈ 338k–550k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 349 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Deckbuilding (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $25.
The era: Only 3 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 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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