How much revenue did The Fool's Apprentice make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Fool's Apprentice sell?

Q: How many copies did The Fool's Apprentice sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before the cut; from 53 reviews (Mixed)

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 Fool's Apprentice out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Fool's Apprentice's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–300k

best case 1.8M (WorldBox - God Simulator)

Games like The Fool's Apprentice

The middle of these games

≈ 72k–300k copies

≈ $700k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: WorldBox - God Simulator at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 784 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on God Game (7 of 8) and Colony Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + God Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Destruction + Life Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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 79 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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