How much revenue did The Ghost Treasure make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Ghost Treasure sell?

Q: How many copies did The Ghost Treasure sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 91 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 91 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 The Ghost Treasure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Ghost Treasure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23.1M–87.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like The Ghost Treasure

The middle of these games

≈ 23.1M–87.5M copies

≈ $213.5M–$349.5M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 48 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 76k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (7 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2021, 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 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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