How much revenue did A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build make?

$239k–$643k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build sell?

Q: How many copies did A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build sell?

58k to 94k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–94k; $239k–$643k after Steam's cut $435k–$989k before the cut; from 1k 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 A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–5k

best case 11k (Bonfire Peaks)

Games like A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–5k copies

≈ $5k–$22k after Steam's cut

from ~72 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bonfire Peaks at ≈ 9k–14k copies, ≈ $47k–$126k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 89.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sokoban (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sokoban + Puzzle, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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 38 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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