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How many copies did ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold ! sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–10k
$5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut
from 142 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold ! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold !'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–13.4M
best case 38.6M (Portal 2)
Games like ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold !

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–13.4M copies

≈ $22.3M–$63.5M after Steam's cut

from ~109k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 24k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 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 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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