How much revenue did A Game About Digging A Hole™ make?

$681k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Game About Digging A Hole™ sell?

Q: How many copies did A Game About Digging A Hole™ sell?

497k to 807k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 497k–807k; $681k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut; from 20k 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 A Game About Digging A Hole™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Game About Digging A Hole™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 707k–957k

best case 1.4M (Creativerse)

Games like A Game About Digging A Hole™

The middle of these games

≈ 707k–957k copies

≈ $4.8M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Creativerse at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Sandbox, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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